Running Quotes
The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996, pg. 48).
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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."
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 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)
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)]
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.
"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)
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.
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)
Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come Running wherever they are.
Princess of Wales Diana— ibid.
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
The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes Running it at any point pretty damn ugly.
linus torvalds— Torvalds, Linus (2005-07-31). Message. linux-kernel mailing list. IU. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
Jackie Biskupski is Running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is Running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree.
— Rick Mercer, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, October 12, 1998
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
john donne— The Anniversary, stanza 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'.
Any woman who understands the problems of Running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of Running a country.
— 1979 Interviewed by the Observer four days after becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister, 8 May.
The peak of the [Presidential] campaign happened in Albuquerque, where a local reporter said to me, "Dr. Commoner, are you a serious candidate or are you just Running on the issues?"
Barry Commoner— Quoted in Thomas Vinciguerra, "At 90, an Environmentalist From the ’70s Still Has Hope," The New York Times (2007-06-19}
Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter Running.
gene fowler— Attributed without citation in Military Chaplains' Review, Chaplains, U.S. Army. (1981), p. 144
A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is Running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.
alexander maclaren— P. 390. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was Running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.
fukuzawa yukichi— Ch. XI (The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1897))
He took particular delight in neutralizing those who desperately needed to be neutralized, those overblown, self-important, arrogant half-wits who were always Running about dictating behavior, morals, and theology to everyone else. And he never looked back.
jack mcdevitt— Chapter 11 (p. 180)
You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from Running you plumb crazy.
— Ken Kesey, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
