Away Quotes

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.

I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.