Top 1200 Get Away Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

It was hard to get away from all of the people that I thought had my best interest at heart, and they really didn't.

Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it.

Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There's nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn't work because it's escapism in spiritual clothing. It's wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn't want to feel the pain anymore. When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Sometimes when you get sick and you go to the doctor, it can feel like you didn't get your money's worth if you don't come away with a pill. I've had many, many conversations with patients who I've cared for over the years about why it's actually in some cases better not to go home with antibiotics.

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex?

If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

When you get drafted and sign a large contract, people expect results right away.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

I do like our young talent here, but it needs to get better. And we need some better veterans if we can go out and get them. We all get discouraged by losing. I sit there every game and see the little things that happen and you feel like they cost you games. But the reality is that we are still some time away from being what I hope we can be. And that's going to take some good decision-making on our part.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

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

I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one's success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

The media has a responsibility. And we can't let them totally get away because they have to let the truth be seen and be told.

The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

I am bound to get carried away by anyone who approaches me with a good script.

Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven't got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I'm really apologetic. I fail to get anything that way.

I think I was always able to laugh a lot at the industry - to be detached from it, even if some of the other models weren't. Jeez - it's hardly rocket science, is it? It's not as if you can get to be a better model..... .you can either get away with it, or you cant? And most of them were also acutely aware of the passage of time.....and how it would affect their careers.

With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.

I think with actors, we tend to get rid of characters - and not get rid of them as in discard them or throw them away, but it's just that you take that jacket off because you're going to be putting a different jacket on.

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless. So as you're going through the process, you get excited and put your all into it. But you don't get carried away, because until you do the thing, nothing hasn't happened yet. The rest is just talk.

The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it.

You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.

Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

I go away to places in Europe or America and I feel uncomfortable; I can't wait to get home.

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

A lot of times, if you're not getting inspiration right away, we'll listen to stuff to get inspired.

If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.

You can't get away from fashion. The whole beauty thing is everywhere. It's just really weird.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

[The trainers] work a day or two a week; I work six days a week, 13 hours a day to get that footage. Carrying the show is very stressful, because I never get away from the cameras. It devastates my personal life.

The thing about the Super Bowl is, once you got to the Super Bowl City, it was non-stop football, 24/7. You couldn't get away from it. You couldn't leave your hotel room and not get bombarded by fans. You couldn't go have a nice dinner and relax. Friends and family weren't there, so the normalcy of life changed.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution.

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think real novelists do that. But I make a distinction between prose that's very efficiency-minded (like, the minimum I can get away with), versus loosening the screws and letting the words spill out beautifully and so on.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

If you are in the team, there is always going to be someone biting away at your heels trying to get in.

It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.