Going Away Quotes:

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

- A. R. Ammons

topic: Travel, Going Away, Return

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

- A.M. Homes

source: A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.114, Granta Books

topic: Dream, Get Better, Going Away

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

- Aasif Mandvi

topic: Worry, Going Away, Trying

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Rejection, Going Away, Care, Cares About Someone, Wanted Someone

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

- Adam Ant

topic: Going Away, Malaria, Medication

Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?

- Al Siebert

source: Al Siebert (2009). “The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Letting Go, What If, Going Away

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

- Alex Turner

topic: Rocks, Going Away, Rock N Roll

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away

- Alexa Vega

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Going Away

You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.

- Amitav Ghosh

topic: Grandmother, Journey, Going Away

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.

- Amy Lowell

topic: I Miss You, Missing, Going Away, I Missed You, Missed You

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

- Andy Serkis

source: "Hobbit Week: A Conversation With Andy Serkis, Creator of Gollum". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. December 10, 2012.

topic: Years, Going Away, Needs, Young Actors

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

- Antonya Nelson

topic: Going Away, Attention, Pay

What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.

- Armando Iannucci

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Fall, Office, Going Away

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

- Arnold Rothstein

topic: Going Away, Want, Wants To Be Alone

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

- Arthur Hertzberg

topic: Class, Ideas, Going Away, Class Status

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

- Ashley Greene

topic: Selfish, Going Away, Three

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Night, Going Away, Doe, Torn Apart

Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

- Aurangzeb

topic: War, Punishment, Going Away, Caravans

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

- Avi Arad

topic: Judging, Going Away, Stuff, Being Judged

When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Real, Going Away, Honest

This innocence Is brilliant I hope that it will stay This moment Is perfect Please don't go away I need you now And I'll hold on to it Don't you let it pass you by

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Perfect, Going Away, Needs

It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees everything differently. It is not that at all. Suffering isn't going to go away; the one who suffers is going to go away.

- Ayya Khema

topic: Long, Suffering, Going Away

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.

- Basia

topic: Kissing, Air, Going Away, I Need You

There's always been a need for horror fiction, though--ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature--and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That's one big horror story. And it's the most popular book on the planet.

- Bentley Little

source: "Ron Holland on 'Restoring Our American Legacy' and Protecting Your Wealth in Perilous Times". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. November 10, 2013.

topic: Book, Ghost Stories, Going Away

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

- Betsey Johnson

topic: Going Away, Machines, Use, Sewing

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Going Away, Use, Fool

Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

- Bruce Sterling

topic: Eye, Thinking, Going Away, Hard Things, Cyberpunk

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

- Bruno Tonioli

topic: People, Going Away

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

- Bryan Adams

topic: Going Away, Vancouver, Three, Skyscraper

For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity: for me to give the person a better life, to realize where not to be, and to see what could be even better than being with that person I love.

- Byron Katie

topic: Opportunity, Giving, Going Away

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Going Away

The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback,

- Candace Gingrich-Jones

topic: Years, Going Away, President

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Rainbow, Going Away, Scripts, Creating Beauty

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Loneliness, Going Away

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

- Carol Burnett

topic: Memorable, Long, Going Away

It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.

- Carole King

source: FaceBook post by Carole King from Feb 13, 2015

topic: Believe, Going Away, Matter, Worthy Causes

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Cat, Going Away, Noses

The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Friends, Party, Going Away, Subtraction

I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

- Charlie Sheen

topic: People, Going Away, Sober, Probation

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

- Chris Cornell

topic: Careers, Long, Going Away, Long Careers

Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive...We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.

- Chris Hedges

topic: Thinking, Going Away, Fundamentals

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

- Christina Romer

topic: Oil, Going Away, Climate, Foreign Oil

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Going Away, Chess, Months

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.

- Cindy Gerard

topic: Going Away, Faces, Lap

Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.

- Cynthia Nixon

topic: People, Abortion, Going Away

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Leave Me Alone, Going Away, Want

I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.

- Daphne Oz

topic: School, College, Going Away

Things don't go away. They become you.

- Darin Strauss

source: Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.186, Random House

topic: Going Away

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

- Daryl Hall

topic: Going Away, Bed, Fever

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Going Away, Arena, Capacity

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

- David Clement-Davies

topic: Going Away, Bats

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

- David Lynch

topic: Going Away, Attempting, Opening

Kittens will make your sad go away

- David Wong

topic: Going Away, Kitten

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

- David Wong

topic: Cat, Men, Going Away

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

- Davy Jones

topic: Racing, Mafia, Going Away, Russian Mafia

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Vocabulary, Going Away, Trying

Kiss is like a smell in a paper bag, they just never go away

- Dee Snider

topic: Kissing, Smell, Going Away, Paper Bags

About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

- Deke Slayton

topic: Running, Climbing, Going Away, Alien Life, Extraterrestrial

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

- Diane Lane

topic: Careers, Going Away, Hardest

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

- Domenico Cieri

topic: Relationship, Keys, Going Away, Back Together, Close Relationship

The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.

- Donald Luskin

source: "OpenFund closes its doors". www.cnn.com. August 2, 2001.

topic: Empowering, Going Away, Information

I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

- E. L. Doctorow

topic: Wish, Going Away, Radicalism, Decorum

The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you like bubbles so, In a bubble you must go. In that bubble you will stay Till your bubbles go away. Sound can't pass from inside out Even if you scream or shout. If you want to be set free, End your spell, that's the key

- E.D. Baker

source: E.D. Baker (2008). “Once Upon a Curse”, p.189, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Simple, Keys, Going Away

I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.

- Eckhard Pfeiffer

topic: Thinking, Long, Going Away

If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.

- Eddie Vedder

topic: Going Away, Band, Should

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

- Edward Albee

topic: Going Away, Unions, Stuff, Chekhov, Beckett

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

- Edward Gorey

source: Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

topic: Important, Going Away, Facts

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

- Edward Gorey

topic: Important, Going Away, Speak

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

- Eileen Caddy

topic: Relationship, Going Away, Important

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

- Elizabeth Fishel

topic: Song, Differences, Going Away, Sorority, Sister Love

He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.

- Elizabeth Strout

topic: Darkness, Going Away, Arms

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

- Elizabeth von Arnim

source: Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.11, Jester House Publishing

topic: Going Away, Littles, Unselfish

I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Dream, Shadow, Going Away, Scraping

If u don't like warriors then i don't like u so go away u stalkers... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

- Erin Hunter

topic: Warrior, Going Away

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

- Erin McCarthy

source: Erin McCarthy (2005). “The Pregnancy Test”, p.195, Kensington Books

topic: Character, Maturity, Going Away

I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.

- Erykah Badu

topic: Beautiful, Light, Going Away

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

- Eugene Gendlin

source: "Focusing". Book by Eugene Gendlin, 1978.

topic: Integrity, People, Going Away, Facing Reality

I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to daytime. I learned so much about my craft and I made so many wonderful friends there and I am so sad that it is all going away.

- Eva LaRue

source: Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011.

topic: Children, Going Away, Crafts, Fading Away, Wonderful Friends

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

- Fran Tarkenton

topic: Nfl, Going Away, Doe, Ignoring Facts

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

- Frank Hall Crane

topic: Success, Mind, Going Away

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

- Frank Langella

topic: Going Away, Actors, Tables

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...

- Frank McCourt

topic: Past, Going Away

It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.

- Fuyumi Ono

topic: Dream, Effort, Going Away

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

- Garth Nix

source: Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.300, Hot Key Books

topic: Writing, Going Away, Library

Did you think that I forgot you? Did you think I'm going away? Did you feel like I was don't care for you? No. I am here to stay.

- Gary Lawyer

topic: Good Morning, Thinking, Going Away, Care For You

Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come...

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Going Away, Invention

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

- Gayle Forman

topic: New York, Talking, Going Away, If I Stay

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

- George Clooney

topic: Going Away, Trying, Used

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

- Georges St-Pierre

topic: Believe, Going Away, Trying

How can I ever miss you when you never go away?

- Gloria Jones

topic: Women, Missing, Going Away

Go away... I'm alright.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Going Away, Last Words, Alright

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

- H. G. Wells

topic: Going Away, Lasts, Last Words

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

- Harlan Coben

topic: Thinking, Insecurity, Going Away

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

- Harold MacMillan

topic: Fall, Going Away, Actors

I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

- Ian K. Smith

topic: Going Away, Ephemeral, Resolution

If you can't make it go away, wait it out.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Waiting, Going Away

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

- Iris Johansen

source: Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam

topic: Eye, Going Away, Why Not, Blind Eyes

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Going Away, Looks, Strange

Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Spiritual, Views, Going Away

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

- Jack Kornfield

topic: Wise, Going Away, Matter

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

topic: Ucla, Years, Going Away, Asthma, Freshman

Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem

- James Hillman

topic: Secret Love, Focus, Going Away, Loveless

Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.

- James Randi

topic: Going Away, Safe, Rewards, Tested

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

- Jandy Nelson

topic: Grief, Forever, Going Away

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

- Jason Hirschhorn

topic: Technology, Years, Going Away, Old Technology

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

- Jason Ritter

topic: Going Away

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

- Jean Harris

topic: Winning, Going Away, Bachelors

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Time, Going Away, Hours

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

- Jeff Daniels

topic: Dance, Trying, Going Away

My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say there are not times when major change happens, but my experience is that particularly when you're encouraging businesses to change of their own volition, the change is more slow over time. I don't think global trade is going to go away. I think it's unlikely that global trade and multinationals are not going to be around.

- Jeffrey Hollender

topic: Business, Thinking, Going Away, Major Change

Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away.

- Jello Biafra

topic: America, Order, Going Away

If you just want to be a star, go away.

- Jenifer Lewis

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Stars, Going Away, Want

Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.

- Jennifer Niven

source: Jennifer Niven (2009). “Velva Jean Learns to Drive: Book 1 in the Velva Jean series”, p.367, Penguin

topic: Eye, Going Away

I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.

- Jenny Downham

topic: Broken, Going Away, Sound

When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.

- Jessica Chastain

topic: Crazy, Trying, Going Away

There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit, and it's there.

- Jimmie Johnson

source: "Richmond II: Post race press conference - Johnson". www.motorsport.com. September 12, 2010.

topic: Going Away, Pits, Championship

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

- Joaquin Phoenix

topic: Girl, Sarcastic, Going Away

when you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever...

- Joel Meyerowitz

topic: Forever, Going Away, Sides

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

- John Boehner

topic: Afterlife, Leader, Going Away

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

- John Wooden

topic: Memories, Going Away, Hearing, Slipping Away

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

- Johnny Vegas

topic: Going Away, Wikipedia, Use

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Men, Feelings, Going Away

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Hate, Feelings, Going Away

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

- Joshua Foer

source: "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

topic: Memories, Going Away, Want, Neural Networks

Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

- Jostein Gaarder

source: Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Orange Girl”, p.71, Hachette UK

topic: Life Is Short, Understanding, Going Away

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

- K. D. Lang

topic: Country, Tired, Going Away, Americana

We wanted technology to go away and for us to experience what it gives us, in a direct link, without any interface

- K. K. Barrett

topic: Technology, Giving, Going Away, Interfaces

When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.

- Karen Hesse

source: Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Dust, Going Away, One Day, Nye, Want To Go Away

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

- Katherine Dunn

topic: Thinking, Important, Going Away

You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.

- Katie MacAlister

source: Katie Macalister (2004). “You Slay Me”, p.218, Penguin

topic: Going Away, Naked, Tonight

I walked over to Drake and stomped on his foot. Hard. "What will I give you to help me? What will I give you?" He stood on one leg rubbing his foot, grinning a grin so steamy, it almost melted my underwear. "I never doubted you would defeat her. You are my mate. You could do no less." I pointed a finger at him. "You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.

- Katie MacAlister

topic: Feet, Giving, Going Away, Want To See You

Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

- Kenneth Keating

topic: Political, Going Away, Problem

If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that... there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy.

- Kevin Clash

source: Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

topic: Focus, Going Away, Age

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

- Kevin Durant

topic: Basketball, Hard Work, Going Away

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

- Kim Novak

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Going Away, Together, Want

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

- Kimbra

topic: Emotional, Going Away, Records

Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.

- Kirk Cameron

topic: Believe, Going Away, Alarms, Freeways

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

- Kris Carr

topic: Cancer, Going Away, Goes On, Life Going On, Life Goes On

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Going Away, Enough

The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.

- Lauren DeStefano

topic: Going Away, Purpose

The pain doesn't go away, you just make room for it.

- Laurie Holden

topic: Pain, Going Away, Rooms

When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth.

- Lee Carroll

topic: Self Worth, Going Away, Overcoming

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Relaxation, Going Away, Littles

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

- Liane Moriarty

source: Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

topic: Going Away, Someone You Miss, Missed You, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Bereavement

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

- Louise Erdrich

topic: Love, Going Away, Sides, Spray, Dandelions

That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.

- Louise Fletcher

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Pregnancy, Careers, Going Away

Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.

- Louise Rennison

topic: Parent, Going Away, Said

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

- Major Owens

topic: Going Away, Needs, World

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

- Marc Newson

topic: Design, Going Away, Stills

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Writing, Going Away, Taught

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

- Mark Ruffalo

topic: Play, Going Away, Broadway, Want To Go Away

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

- Matt Damon

topic: Inspirational, Choices, Going Away, Inspirational Celebrity

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

- Matthew Ashford

topic: Character, Careers, Going Away

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

- Matthew Perry

topic: Smart, Important, Going Away

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

- May Sarton

topic: Gardening, Going Away, Age

Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Mom, Hair, Going Away

I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Going Away

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

- Mel Gibson

topic: Creative, Going Away, Stuff

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

- Mel Gibson

topic: Wise, Forever, Going Away

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

- Michael Nesmith

source: Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

topic: Ideas, Going Away, Fixed

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

- Michael Reagan

topic: Going Away, Watches, Disappear

It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.

- Michael Thomas Ford

topic: Going Away, Stuff, Littles

When I got Trophy Wife, the first fear is, This could go away; the second is, Its here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.

- Michaela Watkins

topic: Wife, Going Away, Firsts, Trophy Wife

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

- Michelle Rowen

source: Michelle Rowen (2012). “Dark Kiss”, p.60, Harlequin

topic: Fear, Going Away, Tvs

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

- Miranda Otto

topic: Thinking, Work Out, Going Away

I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.

- Naomi Novik

topic: Laughing, Insulting, Going Away, Pandora

Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?

- Nick Hornby

topic: Writing, Judging, Going Away, Arseholes

I still love music - that's never gonna go away.

- Nick Rhodes

topic: Going Away, Music Love, Stills

Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.

- Octave Mirbeau

source: Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”

topic: Life, Going Away, Should

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do--to look into the face of God for ourselves.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Light, Important, Going Away

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

- Patrick Swayze

topic: Beautiful, Keys, Going Away, Better Ways

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

- Patrick Swayze

topic: Dancing, Going Away

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

- Paul A. Offit

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Going Away, Chance, Week, Pertussis

If you're going to run for president as the anti-Clinton, you should know that Democrats and their media friends will do whatever it takes to make you look Clintonian. The questions won't go away because Democrats are desperate to define Republican deviancy down to Clinton levels. The ugliness is just getting started.

- Paul Gigot

source: "Snow Job: Bush Tries Not to Inhale". www.wsj.com. August 20, 1999.

topic: Running, Media, Going Away, Getting Started

When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.

- Paul Pierce

topic: Winning, Feelings, Going Away

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown”, p.470, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Long, Going Away, Return

Nobody can miss you unless you go away.

- Paul Westerberg

source: Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

topic: Missing, Going Away

I don't like going away from my children.

- Paula Radcliffe

topic: Children, Going Away, My Children

I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because...." "Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love You, Say Anything, Going Away, Inspirational True Love, I Love You Because

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Going Away, Making Memories, Wise Words, Bad Things Happen

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Memories, Mean, Going Away

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

- Penn Jillette

topic: Atheism, Going Away, Needs

Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away.' It's just important, just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood.

- Peter Criss

source: "Original KISS drummer celebrates surviving breast cancer". Interview with Madison Park, edition.cnn.com. October 15, 2009.

topic: Cancer, Guy, Going Away, Breast Cancer Inspirational, Breast Cancer Survivor

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

- Peter Singer

topic: America, Going Away, United States, American Society, Greenhouses

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.

- Philip Pullman

topic: Writing, Ideas, Going Away

The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Love, Compassion, Going Away

The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September.

- Pietro Badoglio

source: "Italy Betrayed" by Peter Tompkins, (p. 218), 1966.

topic: Going Away, September, Fine

Take solace, take comfort. Your problems, too, will go away one day. They're temporary. The only thing that is permanent in nature is in your heart. Recognize that and be fulfilled. Fulfill the possibility that was declared the day you were born, the moment you took your first breath.

- Prem Rawat

topic: Heart, Going Away, One Day

What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.

- R. K. Laxman

topic: Leader, Quality, Going Away

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

- R. K. Milholland

topic: Old Things, Going Away, Rooms

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away

- Rafael Palmeiro

topic: Going Away, Let It Go, Fingers

Emergency dance party--go away.

- Rainbow Rowell

topic: Party, Going Away, Emergencies, Dance Party

The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.

- Ralph Lauren

topic: Going Away, Proof, Living Proof, I Can Do This

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Goal, Going Away, Desire

I think anonymity on the internet has to go away,

- Randi Zuckerberg

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Going Away, Internet

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

- Ray Davies

source: Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.205, The Overlook Press

topic: Life, Going Away, Relax

I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away.

- Regina Brett

topic: Prayer, Doors, Going Away

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

- Richard Codey

topic: Long, Bipolar, Going Away

I'd like everybody to be secular. I suppose I have to say politically I would like religion to become gentler and nicer and to stop interfering with other people's lives, stop repressing women, stop indoctrinating children, all that sort of thing. But I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Children, People, Going Away

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!

- Richie Benaud

topic: Pain, Going Away, Swelling, Private Parts