Quotes About Running

She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn.

According to [Jerome] Levin, Alcoholics Anonymous describes the geographic cure as 'physically running away from one's problems without ever facing them, without ever relinquishing denial and getting help for one's addiction.' This sounds like precisely what Bill Clinton is up to.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.

The truck rounded the last corner. It was more like a cube van, yellow with some kind of crest on the side. I struggled for a better look. The air was getting hazy now. Invisible smoke stung my eyes. "The fire department?" Rafe scowled at Daniel. "We're running from a fire and hiding from the fire department?

By the holy, Jack Taylor. I was beginning to think you were a rumor running around as a fact.

and as this need grows more intense so does a sensation of movement, speed to come, impending declaration—"The past is funny, Viv; it never seems to let things lie, finished. It never seems to stay in place as it should"—until she feels that she is beginning to run down an ever steepening hill and she must stop before the hill gets too steep and she gets going too fast to stop:

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

The best way to settle such arguments is to measure the selling effectiveness of your campaign at regular intervals, and to go on running it until the research shows that it has worn out. Word

How come joggers always seem to be the ones to find bodies? Makes me glad I don't exercise.

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

You can't go on running forever…" "And you can't go on…" Alfie desperately searched for the right word, "…mopedding* forever!

He looked right into her and then he said, "In a second I'm going to ask you if you're okay. Your answer is extremely important. If you can keep fighting, or at least keep running, you have to say 'yes'. Otherwise we have to run away and let them win this one. Now. Are you okay?

Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!" —FORREST GUMP

I started running to escape the memories that drinking couldn't cover up

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. If you want to talk to God, run an ultra.

Running has a way of possessing your soul, infiltrating your psyche, and quietly becoming your central life force. The difference between a jogger and a runner is that a jogger still has control of his life. We runners have lost it.

The world and its institutions engulf and suffocate us. We runners find our sanctuary in retreating to the roadways and trails, our sacred reprieve. The wonder isn't that we go; it's that we come back.

You're either born a runner, or not. Simple as that. And it isn't the act of running that constitutes this demarcation, but the desire. Running isn't necessary

Perhaps nothing in sports or in life is as accessible to all as running. It didn't matter our language, creed, or skin color, running was a commonality we all shared. Two hundred of us ran down that highway as one. So many things in this world divide us, rip us apart, but here was something that united us, that brought us together. The fact that running is available to all doesn't diminish its significance; it amplifies it.

My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.

My father, Bobby Oates*, said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot. He looked so nice. He was so nice.

The pain of running relieves the pain of living.