Away Quotes

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.