Away Quotes

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

I think about the next season right away.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.