Runaway Quotes

• Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Parents
  • Relationship
  • Grow Up

• How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

  

  William Shatner
  • Simple
  • Beauty
  • Healthy

• That was totally against the runaway

  

  Iain Dowie
  • Runaway

• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Faith
  • Pray
  • Buddhism

• I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the Joan Jett out of me.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Beats

• The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Solved
  • Runaway
  • Negro's Problem

• The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • People
  • Truth
  • Knowing

• I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

  

  Carre Otis
  • School
  • Modeling
  • Making Money

• How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Records
  • Bands
  • Runaway

• To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Wise

• Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Runaway

• I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the right thing to do. And if I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward. I can’t live with that. God wouldn’t be able to put me where I am today, and as far as I’ve come in life, if I was a coward.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • God
  • Soul
  • Right Thing

• Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Sweet
  • Runaway
  • Millionaires

• Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Know
  • Runaway

• It stopped the dissociation. I can use my feelings; I’m not running away from them. I’m not held hostage by them. I can’t turn them off and on, but I can put them away.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Runaway
  • Hostage
  • DIssociates

• Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Walking
  • Weakness
  • Plague

• It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.

  

  Alexander Masters
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Runaway

• "You promised you would never run away from me again,” she said. “I did promise that,” he said. “And I don’t remember you promising not to destroy my life’s work. So you have me there.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Work
  • Never
  • Destroy

• I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Flying
  • Runaway

• It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Role

• If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Economic
  • Prosperity
  • Inflation

• Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Civilization
  • Taxes

• I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

  

  Etta James
  • Mother
  • Place
  • Kid

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