run quotes

I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball and don't like the lookof it,I can run after it and bring it back.

- SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lshall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD Isaiah 40:30^31.

   And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as thestarsforeverand ever.Butthou,ODaniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Daniel12:3^4.

   Know ye not thatthey whichrun ina racerun all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 9:24.

Wherefore seeing we alsoare compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews12:1^2.

If Ihad to decidetoday,Iwould run.But Imaycometomy senses.

- Phil (William Philip) Gramm
  On seeking presidential nomination. In Time, 26 Sep.

Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

-Thomas Gray
  Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (published1747), l.38^40.

Ist es schwer und kann es ein AuÞenseiter begreifen,dass man eine Geschichte von ihrem Anfang in sich erlebt, vom fernen Punkt bis zu der heranfahrenden Lokomotive aus Stahl, Kohl und Dampf, sie aber auchjetzt noch nicht verl a« sst, sondern von ihr gejagt wird und aus eigenem Schwung vor ihr l a« uft, wohin sie nur st o« Þt und wohin man sie lockt. It is so difficult and can an outsider understand that you experience a story within yourself from its beginning, fromthe distant point up to theapproaching locomotive of steel, coal and steam, and you don't abandon it even now, but want to be pursued by it and have time for it, therefore are pursued by it and of your own volition run before it wherever it may thrust and wherever you may lure it.

- Franz Kafka
Diary entry,  Aug. Collected in Max Brod (ed)  The Diaries of Franz Kafka,1910^1913 (1948).

   He can run, but he can't hide.

-Joe pseudonym of  Joseph Louis Barrow Louis
  Said during a bout against Billy Conn.

What Makes Sammy Run?

- Budd Wilson Schulberg
  Title of novel.

We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

- Bruce Springsteen
  'Born to Run'. English Baptist  preacher,  famous  for  his  eloquent  sermons.  A strong  Calvinist,  he  left  the  Evangelical  Alliance  (1864)  and Baptist  Union  (1887)  over  doctrinal differences  and  a  concern for orthodoxy.

I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a mobwould have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thingwalked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' 'Yes,'said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly. I replace my hat on my head, and he puts on his cap, and we both grasp hands, and I then sayaloud: 'I thank God,Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.' He answered,'I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.'

- Sir Henry Morton originally John Rowlands Stanley
  How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa.

He gives direction to the town, To cry it up, or run it down.

-Jonathan Swift
  'On Poetry', l.269^70.