Running Quotes
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996, pg. 48).
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It is asserted that the dogs keep Running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
pliny the elder— Book VIII, sec. 148.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine Running around doing exercises.
neil armstrong— First On The Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E Aldrin, Jr. (1970) edited by Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin, p. 113, states of this: "Like many a quote which gets printed once and therefore enshrined in the libraries of all newspapers and magazines, this particular one was erroneous. Neil recalled having heard the quote, and he even recalled having repeated it once. He did not subscribe to its thesis, however, and he only quoted it so that he could disagree with it."
"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of Running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 21 (2007)
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears I hid from Him, and under Running laughter.
Francis Thompson— Poems, "The Hound of Heaven" (1893)
Starting from 1993 in Otaru, Hokkaid?, and now Running unchecked throughout Japan, signs saying 'Japanese Only' have gone up, making an unspoken undercurrent of fear of the outsider into clear, present, and brazen exclusionism — following the best traditions of segregation and apartheid.
debito arudou— "The Rogues' Gallery: Photos of Places in Japan which Exclude or Restrict non-Japanese Customers," Debito.Org (last revised November 2007)
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair Running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.
damian pettigrew— On the adjective ‘Felliniesque’, in The Los Angeles Times (April 2003)]
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair Running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.
— On the adjective ‘Felliniesque’, in The Los Angeles Times (April 2003)]
It is asserted that the dogs keep Running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
— Book VIII, sec. 148.
Red Dog smiled. 'I would like you to meet my friends Mr Sitting Bull, Mr Poisoned Buffalo, and Chief Running Skunk-Backwards.''Sitting Bull's a name I know,' Yogi remarked, shaking hands.'Oh, I'm not one of those Sitting Bulls,' Mr Sitting Bull said.
ernest hemingway— Part 3, Ch. 2
Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will.
audrey niffenegger— p. 154 (The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003))
Running away from justice, must always be considered an evidence of guilt.
— Clerk, L.J., Muir's Case (1793), 23 How. St. Tr. 230.
My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start Running four ways at the same time.
davis, Sammy, Jr.
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly Running could not give.
john dryden— 1675 Aureng-Zebe, act 4, sc.1.
Faster and faster it rolled, with me Running after it bent low, gritting my teeth, and I found myself doubled over and rolling down the street head over heels, one complete somersault after another like a bagel and strangely happy with myself.
David Ignatow— 1968 Rescue the Dead,'The Bagel'.
Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come Running wherever they are.
Princess of Wales Diana— ibid.
Heaven & earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation; were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people. Here are mountaines, hils, plaines, valleyes, rivers, and brookes, all Running most pleasantly into a faire Bay, compassed but for the mouth, with fruitfull and delightsome land.
john smith— Describing the countryside around Chesapeake Bay (1606); reported in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles (1907), vol. 2, pp. 44–45.
I think that the corporation is Running it and will always make it appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.
joe strummer— About mainstream radio
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides Running through the generations.
carl jung— Mysterium Coniunctionis (1955) CW 14: P. 232
And the answer given was very significant: "Because we talk in vain, and because we are satisfied with the things of the senses , and because we are Running after desires ; therefore, we, as it were, cover the Reality with a mist." Here the word Maya is not used at all, but we get the idea that the cause of our ignorance is a kind of mist that has come between us and the Truth .
— Vivekananda, in Complete Works, Volume 2, p.88
There will be no cutting and Running in Iraq.
— 2004 Press conference,17 May.
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies Running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.
george gamow— p. 31 (The Creation of the Universe (1952))
The way to make money is to buy when blood is Running in the streets.
john d. rockefeller— Attributed in The Fourth — And by Far the Most Recent 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990) by Robert Byrne; attributed elsewhere to Nathan M. Rothschild
The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already Running a fever.
Peter Drucker— p. 94 (Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959))
The reason I’m Running for president is because I can’t be Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce Springsteen— President Barack Obama [2]
When we find a series of decisions Running down from the time of Sir William Grant , we should be very cautious, and very slow to overrule them.
— Lindley, L.J., In re Pickard (1894), L. R. 3 C. D. [1894], p. 710; in reference to the case of Finch v. Squire (1804), 10 Ves. 41.
You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time. You can consume only organic food while Running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.
— Caroline Myss, in "Distractions, Distractions" in Heal Your Life (19 August 2010)
