Going Out quotes
236 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself."
"I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy."
"It's a dangerous business, going out your door."
"Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window"
"I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive."
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"Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?"
"For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything."
"What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope."
"I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain."
"Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth."
"If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out."
"By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition."
"By going out of your mind, you come to your senses"
"I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run."
"We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is."
"When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming."
"I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did."
"It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24."
"I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way."
"You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids."
"All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."
"[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know."
"That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world."
"Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner."
"I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds."
