Running Quotes

While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases.

If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239-

But-Jace what are you doing?' 'Finishing my shower. And if you‘ve made me run through all the hot water, I‘ll be very annoyed.

If you insist on the chase then you'd better start running 'cause dude, you're in for a marathon

Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.

He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem’s place to do those things, not his. Not his.” -Will Herondale

Are you trying to get run over by a cab? Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood

nothing ventured, nothing gained.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

I really like doing action. It's one of those things where I negotiate the world physically, I think, more than mentally. I enjoy running and jumping.

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.

I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.

Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun.

I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Why did people run around in random directions when shooting started instead of literally hitting the deck to stay out of the line of fire? How stupid could you get?

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.