Top 45 Running Away Quotes

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy – that’s what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

Just two words are enough to drive away the DMK members from the House. They are running away at the mention of ‘Katchatheevu’ or ‘prohibition.’

A lot of times, people will say, ‘You’re running away from your problems.’ So what? Why do you have to sit there and confront every single issue? Sometimes going away is the best answer.

We’re living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don’t work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you’re revolted by. In fact, often it’s what you’re running away from.

I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don’t want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don’t get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that’s when it gets really exciting.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

The idea of running away and getting married excites me.

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.

I did a bit of running away when my mam passed away. I didn’t go back to work; I started drinking quite a lot, and I know how damaging that can be.

I didn’t feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

What’s important to me about horror stories is to look at what’s actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.

I’m certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I’d run away from those schools. They’d catch me. They’d bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was – it was terrible.

I never felt like running away from my dreams.

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I’m not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

Running away from something doesn’t do anything except put distance.

Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I’ve spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast – as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.

If a bully wants to beat you up, you have the choice of running away or standing your ground. In our society, we have police forces who try to control bullies, sometimes by force.

When I was running away, I didn’t have somebody there to help me run away. All I had was DMX’s voice or Eminem’s voice or Tupac’s voice.

I think I’m always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre’s always felt like a good place to run away to.

I’m not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government’s state of mind at the time I made that.

For once in my life, I wanted to flaunt my Asian side instead of hiding it to fit as somebody else… ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ made me want to get in touch with my roots, instead of running away from them.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

There is something about putting the uniform on. You’ve got a role to play, to be calm, to lead other people, to go forward when everyone else is running away. It gives you a sense of, not of courage but, ‘It’s my job.’

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn’t feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

Not having a mum was my thing. It came with a sort of fame. Other kids couldn’t get their head around that. But looking back now, I’m quite proud about how I managed myself. I didn’t end up sniffing glue or running away. I just got on with things.

The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you’ve created are just running away from something or toward something, but they’re no longer capable of innovation or discovery.

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that ‘running away with the circus’ element of being an actor.

I’m human, and we make mistakes. My biggest mistake was that I was running away from something here in New York and I ran into the wrong hands.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I consider more my home than anywhere else in the world.

I’m a guy that, if I see people running away from something I’m like, ‘Why you running away? What’s over there?’

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that’s pretty great.

In general, presidents do sit for interviews or respond to requests from prosecutors because they take their constitutional responsibility to faithfully execute the laws seriously, and running away from a prosecutor isn’t consistent with faithfully executing the laws.

One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you’re on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it’s running away.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won’t be running away from it or hiding from it.

I’m so tired of reading all the negativity about black fathers running away and no black men as role models in society. I had a great father. Most of the guys I knew had great fathers.

Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

In a presidential campaign, you can’t lie. You can’t hide what you are and what you want. You can’t hide what kind of President you’ll be. You can’t keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can’t keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

I run my routes like a crossover dribble. It’s about taking angles, faking one way but going the other, and being savvy. And then, instead of running to the basket, I’m running away from the defender.