Away Quotes

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts.

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Nothing ever goes away.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.