130 Time Away Quotes

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Famous Time Away Quotes

Being away from home is nice but home is best. — Swedish Proverbs

I took some time out for life. — James L. Brooks

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Ouida

out of sight,out of mind — Homer

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. — Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Your absence has gone through me - W. S. Merwin

Your absence has gone through me — W. S. Merwin

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. — Earl Wilson

Absence -- that common cure of love. - Miguel de Cervantes

Absence -- that common cure of love. — Miguel de Cervantes

Absence - that common cure of love. - Lord Byron

Absence - that common cure of love. — Lord Byron

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again. — Damien Rice

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. — William Shakespeare

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving. — John Gray

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. — Thomas Kempis

When all else fails, take a vacation. - Betty Williams

When all else fails, take a vacation. — Betty Williams

Short Time Away Quotes

  • Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. — Elizabeth Ashley
  • Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. — Robert Morgan
  • Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. — Colley Cibber
  • Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. — Maya Angelou
  • My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business. — Norman Granz
  • I'm disappearing, avoiding most things. — Syd Barrett
  • I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm. — Lee Krasner
  • Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy. — Jay Kay
  • Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. — Thomas Kempis
  • Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane

Top 10 Time Away Quotes

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever. — Ferdinand Marcos

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. — Sarah Kay

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time. — Chesty Puller

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return. — Subramanya Bharathi

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away. — Harriet Tubman

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away — Arsene Wenger

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. — Elvis Presley

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Tough times go away, tough people do not. - Walter Payton

Tough times go away, tough people do not. — Walter Payton

Time Away Image Quotes

Time away quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. - Ben Hecht quote

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. — Ben Hecht

Time away quote Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,
Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

Taking Time Away Quotes

I know what we’re going to do by the time we’re dead. And it isn’t worth trading that for anything today that could take away from that. — Alex Hormozi

The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time. — Steven Furtick

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like — James Taylor

Time away quote Certain people enter our lives at the perfect time, for the most beautiful reasons and you know righ
Certain people enter our lives at the perfect time, for the most beautiful reasons and you know right away it was a gift from god.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team. — Wayne Gretzky

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams. — Nancy Reagan

Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Time away quote Live every moment, Love every day, because begore you knew it precious time slips away.
Live every moment, Love every day, because begore you knew it precious time slips away.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. — Laurence J. Peter

Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go. — Cat Stevens

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

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. — Grover Norquist

Wishing Time Away Quotes

For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever. — Naguib Mahfouz

Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best. — Andrea Gibson

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away. — Andy Rooney

I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away. — Gemma Arterton

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end. — Dani Shapiro

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different? — Leonard Nimoy

I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time. — Mika

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go. — William Blake

Need Time Away Quotes

It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way. — Lierre Keith

If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. — Matthew Walker

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim. — James Mattis

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I just need some time away to remember why I stay. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past. — Larry Dossey

Financially, I do not need to work unless I want to, and whatever film I accept has to be right for me in the sense that it should justify the time I spend away from my husband and kids. — Kajol

Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff. — Grimes

Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day. — Caroline Myss

For the Russians, frankly, it's time that we punched the Russians in the nose. They've gotten away with too much in this world and we need to stand up against them, not just there, but also in Eastern Europe where they threaten some of our most precious allies. — John Kasich

Time To Walk Away Quotes

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently. — George Johnson

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough. — Jerry West

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise. — Robert Foster Bennett

People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on. — Bob Losure

When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you're not giving 100 percent out there, then it's time for you to leave because you'll end up getting hurt - I want to be able to walk away on top. — Jerry Rice

I'm urging all women, I ask them the first time men hit you, please walk away. There is help out there. There are a lot of places that you can go and get help. That's the first step to your freedom and to your life is to walk away. — LaToya Jackson

I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I'm always short on time. — Dan Mangan

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away. — Renee Fleming

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time. — Erin Hamlin

I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade. — Wilson Rawls

Time Apart Quotes

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever. — Tite Kubo

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. — Ajahn Brahm

Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights. — Sayings

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart. — Empedocles

Six feet under the stars is a place that doesn't exist. It's a place in your mind where everything and anything is possible. It's a place with no rules or limitations. It's a place where only two people can be at a time where no one can judge them and no one could try to break them apart. — Alex Gaskarth

Syria is another multi-faith, multi-tribal state that fell apart at the first time of asking. — Tim Marshall

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. — Suzanne Collins

Apart from Arsenal and Barcelona, I don't see myself playing anywhere else. I will definitely be going back (to Arsenal) whenever I have time to watch games and to see the guys… and if there is one place to go back to (to play), it is Arsenal for sure. — Cesc Fabregas

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More Time Away Quotes

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time. — Ronald Reagan

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity. — David Livingstone

Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive. — Chinua Achebe

Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.' — Jimmy Page

Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time. — Genghis Khan

No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy. — Fred Korematsu

When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away. — Martin Cooper

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. — Ram Dass

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. — John Locke

But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus. — Scott Jurek

A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking. — Helen Steiner Rice

Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity. — Henepola Gunaratana

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. — David Hyde Pierce

The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong. — Madeleine Stowe

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing. — Jami Gertz

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time — Unknown Author

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. — William Shakespeare

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about. — Pete Townshend

Most of us aren't defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be. — Jocko Willink

We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people. — Alfie Kohn

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player. — John Petrucci

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire. — Steven Tyler

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away. — Boethius

I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time. — RZA

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. — Ronaldo

The excuse that you don't have enough time is just that--an excuse. You do have time. It's a question of priorities. So turn the TV off at night. Shut down the internet. Take inventory of how much time you fritter away on non-essential activities that unnecessarily crowd your days and unjustifiably squander precious hours. Go to bed earlier. Then create a healthy boundary around your morning routine--this is your time, and you are not to be disturbed or interrupted. — Rich Roll

'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some. — Eleanor Porter

The magic of Bitcoin isn’t the transfer of money to someone 10,000 miles away – it is the transfer of money to someone 10,000 days away. — Michael Saylor

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