Walking Away famous quotes
06-24-2025
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The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.
-- Andre Ward -
My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.
-- Andy Rooney -
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.
-- Anne Rice -
Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.
-- Anneli Rufus -
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
-- Bianca Jagger -
An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
-- Bill Klem -
Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.
-- Brian Clough -
But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.
-- Bryan Stevenson -
I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.
-- Burl Ives -
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis -
I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life...
-- Craig David -
Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?
-- David Wong -
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.
-- Dick Wolf -
I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.
-- Donald Miller -
I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
-- Elizabeth Kim -
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
-- Eric Cantor -
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.
-- Eric Ries -
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 -
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
-- George Chapman -
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
-- Harry Dean Stanton -
You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles
-- Jeff Lacy -
Pause and remember - You deserve peace! So, don't feel bad for one moment about walking away from people, jobs, and situations that keep you from having peace of mind.
-- Jennifer Young -
Forever this time," he said as Sawyer strode toward them. Tara sighed blissfully. "You know what this means, right?" "I'm done guessing," he said. "Tell me." "It means you're mine," she said. "And I'm yours. No more walking away. We are going to get it right this time." His smile was slow and easy, and just for her. "Well, finally.
-- Jill Shalvis -
Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.
-- Jo Nesbo -
This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found where I belong. You can cut back to photos of me holding, uh, paper championships. That was truly my dream. This is what I was born to do. As far as walking away from all this to do something else, I don't..I just don't...I don't see the rationality.
-- John Cena -
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
-- John Locke -
The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.
-- Karla Kuskin -
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
-- Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!
-- Kay Arthur -
Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.
-- Kenneth Lay -
As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must go in, it's nigh on ten of the clock.' He half-turned away from me, his jacket collar hiding his expression. Was he angry? Disappointed?" Jo looked intently and I said, "Hungry?" Jo ignored me, but as she passed by acting out walking away from Phil, she allowed her hand to slap against my head.
-- Louise Rennison -
I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.
-- Mat Kearney -
Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.
-- Morgan Freeman -
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.
-- Peter Cameron -
The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.
-- Princess Margaret -
It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.
-- Robert E. Lee -
I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.
-- Tom Shadyac -
I have exes Im friends with and exes Im not friends with. It depends on what you decide together. I do think that sometimes trying to maintain that bond can be healthier than walking away.
-- Tyler Blackburn -
I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
-- Vin Diesel -
I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
-- Willie Mays -
I still love the music and it's still plays a part in what I do but I never 'turned my back' on garage. I was always doing R&B with, say, Walking Away. It's wonderful that I was classed as the king of 2-step and a pioneer, but it's had its turn, I think.
-- Craig David -
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
-- Robin Wright -
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.
-- Stephen Graham Jones -
I believe that that's why you see all these Pew studies that come out that a lot of people are walking away from the faith. A lot of people are changing what they believe because they really feel lied to. I think that it's very important for people to know what they're signing up for.
-- Kirk Franklin
