108 Runaway Quotes
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Famous Runaway Quotes
Take the money and run. — Woody Allen
Run for daylight. — Vince Lombardi
Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho
Runaway from a tiger and face a crocodile. — Thai Proverbs
Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you. — Lisa Page Brooks
Running from your problems is a race you'll never win. — Kid Cudi
We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction. — Alice Hoffman
Never run away from anything. Never! — Winston Churchill
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him. — Jeffrey Bernard
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind. — Wei Wu Wei
Escaping the devil and running into his father. — Romanian Proverbs
The thoroughbred wanderer — Sir Richard Francis Burton
While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach. — Mary Church Terrell
Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart. — Hafez
Short Runaway Quotes
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. — German proverbs
- How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways. — William Shatner
- Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress. — Phyllis Schlafly
- In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream. — Bruce Springsteen
- Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it. — Samuel Rutherford
- You can run but you can't hide — Emily Giffin
- That was totally against the runaway — Iain Dowie
- A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts. — Lance Armstrong
- The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon. — William H. Calvin
- The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it. — Gregg Easterbrook
Want To Run Away Quotes
If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They're not holding onto me. I can get away from them. — Jocko Willink
I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go. — Dean Karnazes
One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from... me. — Jenny Lawson
A doctor says to a man, "You want to improve your love life? You need to get some exercise. Run ten miles a day." Two weeks later, the man called the doctor. The doctor says, "How is your love life since you have been running?" "I don't know, I'm 140 miles away!" — Henny Youngman
A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me. — Steve Gleason
In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges. — Nicolas Sarkozy
I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing. — Tori Amos
It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus. — Katie McGrath
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later. — Laura Schlessinger
Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something. — Bill Bonner
Let's Run Away Quotes
You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running. — Terri Farley
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. — Abraham Lincoln
You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away. — Steven Moffat
If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling. — Vince Lombardi
Let's face it, there's no point in running away. I will find that person myself and I will change Saet Byul's fate — Kim Soo-hyun
Eun Gi. Let's run away. I will go wherever you want. To where no one can find. Run away with me. Seo Eun Gi. — Ma-Roo
Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid. — Barry Lyga
Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us! — Cornelia Funke
With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked. — Ellen Hopkins
My Runaway Quotes
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling. — Michelle Shocked
I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world. — Joan Jett
The changes I envisage and that I have promised to address within my first 90 days in office are; Dismantling the cabals of tribalism that are choking our country and resulting in runaway corruption and frustration for the people of Kenya. — Raila Odinga
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
my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy. — Louise Erdrich
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse. — Tom Robbins
My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.' — Hillary Clinton
I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape. — Justine Kurland
I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'. — Tracy Chevalier
Running Away Quotes
No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you. — Barry Mann
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it. — Ajahn Chah
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo. — Wilma Mankiller
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free. — Ajahn Chah
My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. — Jon Foreman
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. — Nadia Comaneci
The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer. — Ajahn Chah
Don't let your thoughts run away with you, don't start planning to bail out because you're worried about the future and how much you can take. Don't look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day. — Marcus Luttrell
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. — Dennis Banks
Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner. — Bo Schembechler
People Writing About Runaway
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Bruce Springsteen |
411 | 1776 |
 Woody Allen |
822 | 6609 |
 Vince Lombardi |
244 | 4767 |
 William Bolitho |
16 | 218 |
 Thai Proverbs |
71 | 1 |
 Kid Cudi |
101 | 2782 |
More Runaway Quotes
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. — Dixie Lee Ray
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways. — Al Lewis
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government. — Bob Schaffer
Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling. — Steven Spielberg
At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them. — Rose McGowan
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop. — Zhuangzi
Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations. — Dean Koontz
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
You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it. — Dermot O'Leary
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
No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night. — Terence McKenna
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
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. — Ruben Hinojosa
President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate. — Peter Fenn
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. — Nick Clooney
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
I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup. — Louise Bourgeois
Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. — Manohla Dargis
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. — Harvey Korman
Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel. — Peter Singer
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe — Gary Snyder
The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees. — Ted Nugent
The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us? — Joan Jett
You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother and you’ll see that later and be very, very proud. — Lena Dunham
Given the nature of market, the chance of a crash is always greater than the chance of an overnight runaway euphoria. — Sayings
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them. — Timothy B. Tyson
That's an actor's life. I thought Meet Joe Black was gonna be one of the big changes for me, and it was gonna be a runaway hit - and it wasn't. And with Mr. Mom, I said, "There's just no way." And it turned out to be a huge hit. — Jeffrey Tambor
Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing. — John Travolta
I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying. — Tom Petty
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