Quotes about going

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“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.”

“If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.”

“Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the
ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.”

“I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?”

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

“Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!"
Fang: "But we're grounded."
Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)”

“Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”

“"Wait a second."
"I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere."”

“I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”

“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”

“Tyson," I said "We're turning around!"
Going the wrong way?" he asked.
Always," I grumbled, but I steered the chariot towards the stands.”

“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”

“It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us”

“But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.”

“I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.”

“Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.”

“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”

“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”

“Don’t.” She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. “You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you’re never going to bullshit your way into my heart again.”

“You never get mad,” she said when their server left the table. “Except at me.”
“That’s not true,” he said tightly. “Torie can get me going.”
“Torie doesn’t count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life.”

“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”

“It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.”

“Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”

“Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."

--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”

“She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.”

“Are we going to New Orleans?"

"No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia."

"I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.”

“My mother told me… if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.”

“…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.”

“Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you!”

“My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to.”

“you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands… you make me sick… show me your bankai and I will crush it… I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees… I will never let you say those words to Rukia again…
~Ichigo Kurosaki”

“A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don’t matter a damn anymore.”

“So,’ Nico said, ‘since we’re going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.’ Percy’s smile wavered. ‘What do you mean?”

“When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.”

“Guess we're going north," Dev said slowly.
"Everyone, follow Lassie. Timmy's in the well.”

“Soldiers don't complain… I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.”

“Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn’t happened this morning, either.”

“Tell Hugh," she whispered.
Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.”

“Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.”

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”

“These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.”

“I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.”

“Is it my birthday again? Already? Wherethe time go?"
"Behind us --or in front. It depends on which way you are looking.”

“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.”

“You two. You can do a cleaning spell."
One slurred, "But Nixie, I'm really pre-hung-over."
Nix's eyes went wide. "Do it, or the photos go live!"
The witch shook her fist to the sky, crying, "Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!”

“You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.”

“i suppose i have a really loose interpretation of "work", because i think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. the machinery is always going. even when you sleep”

“I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.”

“And did you have to hack his arms off?” “Yes, I did. He wouldn’t go through the door.”
“You say it like you’re proud of it."
I was proud of it. It was an example of quick thinking in a difficult situation.”

“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

“Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.”

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

“Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.”

“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.”

“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”

“That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.”

“I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.”

“Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go”

“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off…”

“They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said.
'I daresay I'm not.”

“Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.”

“Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.”

“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.”

“Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”

“We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.”

“Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.”

“Greg made us see, after an enormous amount of effort, that if a (sane) guy really likes you, there ain’t nothing that’s going to get in his way. And if he’s not sane, why would you want him?”

“I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.”

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”

“If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.”

“If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.”

“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”

“It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.”

“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.”

“A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.”

“Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You’re almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet.”

“You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.”

“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.”

“We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know.”

“me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset?
gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.”

“A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?”

“No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.”

“If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.”

“It doesn’t feel like the end of the world. (Davyn)
No, it doesn’t…(Stryker)
How does the song go, ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine? (Apollymi)”

“Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.”

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

“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.”

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”

“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

“Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker."
"What are you going to motivate people to do?"
Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational… stuff.”

“Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers.
"Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?”

“I'd tell him to go to hell, but it just so happens I'm stuck there and don't want to have to see him every day.”

“You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive?

I don't know. I'm already tired.”

“I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”

“After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. “Not because you’re a girl but because I’m a good person,” he told me.”

“Ayame: Hello, Tori-san!! You're not going to believe what Yuki just told me!”