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Quotes About Running

If it was the last sunset i will ever see, I will keep running in the West, i won't let that sun to set
~ Ayushya Chitransh
I run to get out, when I have been stuck inside, reading to escape from life, not even able to sit up straight in my tiny bunk. I run to feel like I am doing something, when I am overwhelmed by all the things I can't do anything about.
~ Jay Allison
...cursing my heels and debating whether it was faster to stop and take them off--damn ankle straps!--or keep running with the potential neck breakers. Wouldn't that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
~ Jeaniene Frost
In the street, asked a running man the way to the post office. I've always enjoyed asking people in a hurry for information.
~ Jean-Philippe Toussaint
My feet have several thousand meetings scheduled with the dirt on a trail not far from here. Who am I to keep them waiting? Time to run.
~ Jeb Dickerson
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
~ Jeff Bezos
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Stokes is running a little late this morning, ma'am. Like, an emergency, you know." Being a woman of moderate expectations, Jacqueline accepted the stumbling
~ Elizabeth Peters
it was difficult to exercise him properly, because he was so big that even if I ran—and I was for ever running, in my zeal for his welfare,—he still, to keep up with me, needed only to walk, and if I paused for any reason, such as getting my breath or having to tie my shoelace, instantly he lay down. The
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
I dont know if im running because i'm scared or if i'm scared because i'm running.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I was scared of the way I felt as I ran away, knowing that if I stopped, I might have to confront the reason I was always running - and I'd have to admit that there was no reason. Run, run, run. Was it toward something or away from something else?
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I was scared of the way I felt when I ran away, knowing that if I stopped, I might have to confront the reason why I was always running - and I'd have to admit that there was no reason. Run, run, run. Was it toward something or away from something else? The senselessness of this display was too upsetting and contemplate.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Death is in the nature of the universe, Barker. Death is only the operation of a mechanism. All the universe has been running down from the moment of its creation. Did you expect a machine to care what it acted upon? Death is like sunlight or a falling star; they don't care where they fall.
~ Algis Budrys
Fleeing through forest turning silver, in the primal moonlight smeared on us we ran like horses
~ Alice Notley
I'll tell you the truth, don't think I'm lying: I've to run backwards to keep from flying.
~ Alison Lurie
I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.
~ Alison Sweeney
We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
~ Alison Sweeney
I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing.
~ Allison Winn Scotch
Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while
~ Ally Carter
It's what she does, Ms. Morgan.' Mr. Solomon's eyes found mine, but there was a change in him somehow. 'Running,' he added. 'Of course, technically, her pattern is to do something to get kicked out, but that's not an option now, so she's taken matters into her own hands. Do you know what I'm saying, Ms. Morgan?' But sadly, I didn't. 'Sometimes people run...to see if you'll come after them.
~ Ally Carter
There are a lot of reasons people come to Las Vegas. Some come because they want to get rich. Some come because they want to get married. Some want to get lost, and others found. Some are running to. Some are running from. It had always seemed to Kat that Vegas was a town where almost everyone was hoping to get something for nothing - an entire city of thieves.
~ Ally Carter
I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
~ Allyson Felix
My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.
~ Allyson Felix
My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.
~ Allyson Felix