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Quotes About Away

Age-old heartbreak of this place, your great successes fly away, your failures stick around.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
People who are motivated away from things often experience a lot of pain and worry before they're motivated to act.
~ Steve Andreas
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
~ David Burnett
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river I could skate away on.
~ Joni Mitchell
Our anxiety systems are very practical. They assume that anything you run away from is dangerous. The proof of that is, of course, the fact you ran away.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Rage swelled inside Mapleshade's head until the sounds of the forest faded away and her vision blurred. She
~ Erin Hunter
Not dead. Not injured. Just . . . gone.
~ Erin Hunter
I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.
~ Ernesto Che Guevara
There's people who make their living with animals," she said. "Naturalists they're called. You could be one of them." "From then on my father knew what he wanted to do," said Finn. "He wanted to get as far away from his family as it was possible to go, and live with animals." When you know what you want you usually get it.
~ Eva Ibbotson
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
~ Susanne Bier
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
~ Bible
Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.
~ Maxwell
My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
~ Philip Kerr
I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for. That's why 'Mildred Pierce' is like noir without any real crime.
~ Todd Haynes
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
~ William Butler Yeats
Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
~ Hannah Arendt
Our whole relationship did have that unreal quality to it, both of us away from our regular lives and all the mundanity that goes along with that.
~ Harlan Coben
I love football, but being away from it is tough.
~ Aaron Donald
The toughest away match in La Liga for me used to be the one against Osasuna.
~ Luka Modric
For me, Goodison is the toughest away ground to come to. I have experienced it.
~ Gareth Barry
To be very honest, my reason for getting away from 'Pepsi Battle of the Bands' was because I was on tour. I wanted to be on tour, and the amount I was asking for, they said that they couldn't pay it.
~ Atif Aslam
I'm actually enjoying the touring life, although the worst part is being away from my three young children.
~ Chesney Hawkes
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
~ Duncan Sheik
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
~ William Wycherley