Quotes with away

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  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ben Okri We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Plutarch We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Plato We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Buzz Aldrin We should've asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should've worked out ways that we can... just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere that's needed to help each other.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bob Lilly We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.
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  • Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Burnie Burns We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Sean O'Casey Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bill Engvall Welcome to my garage! This is where I go to get away from the honey-do list.
    A Decade of Laughs
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Arthur Miller Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bubba Smith Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • John Howe What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Billy Martin What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
    Billy Martin
    American Major League Baseball player and manager (1928 - )
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  • Campbell Brown What is happening with automation and globalization, that's not going away.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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