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Quotes About Running

She told herself it was the dry night wind and lashing hair, the way her eyes filled when her lonely race finished, but it was always the same whether the air was dry or not, whether her hair was down or up, so she knew. For those few minutes running across the city, she could be and was herself, purely and truly herself, finding herself in those moments only to lose herself once more when she slowed, falling behind as her true self ran free somewhere ahead in the empty night—
~ Robert Crais
Well, fetch it, man!" said Mr. Andersen, angry for the first time all day. "Or would you like to announce to every German outside that we're now running a hotel for weary Jews?
~ Robert Elmer
We ran as if to meet the moon.
~ Robert Frost
In fetid darkness still to live and run-- And all for nothing it had ever done Except forget to go in fear perhaps. No one would know except for ancient maps That such a brook ran water.
~ Robert Frost
I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran
~ Khaled Hosseini
Aku melarikan diri karena aku adalah seorang pengecut.
~ Khaled Hosseini
All I'm saying is you've been dating him for three months. Most guys you date are either dead or running scared by now.
~ Kim Harrison
Half of it was meticulously arranged as an office with her computer - faster and more powerful than an industrial-sized package of laxative - color-coded files, maps and the markers she used to organize her runs. The other half of the table was mine and empty. I wish I could say it was neatness, but when I had a run, I ran it. I didn't analyze it to death.
~ Kim Harrison
The sensation passed, and after a bit of thought he decided it must have been that the decelerating car had passed momentarily through one g. An image came to him, of running out a long pier, wet uneven boards splashed with silver fish scales; he could even smell the salt fish stink. One g. Funny how the body remembered it.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
This is what it's all been about with you, he said in an even tone. All the fear, all the running. The nightmares. When she nodded, he said, You called him the devil. He is. What are you thinking, Scot? But you... married him? MacRieve's disgusted with me. Basically? Yes. Ceremony and everything? She swallowed. He tricked me into it. I-I was only sixteen. A muscle ticked in his cheek and his irises grew pale. Then know this... She stopped breathing. Lass, I'm about to make you a widow--
~ Kresley Cole
in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out.
~ Kyle Mills
People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.
~ Ted Corbitt
It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at mommy and daddy, running the show.
~ Ziggy Marley
The flesh and blood and passions clouded her eyes with sadness and fear. She had started to run away, but after twenty paces, her love caught and held her.
~ yoshikawa eiji ii
A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.
~ young steve
Ever since those days this has been the attitude with which I have always confronted life: from things too much waited for, too much embellished with anticipatory daydreams, there is in the end nothing I can do but run away.
~ Yukio Mishima
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.
~ Zig Ziglar
One person accepts healing as a gift and goes running because they enjoy running. The person running beside them thinks that by running, they will be healthy and wonders why they never are. Two people, same action, only one is receiving health from God. The righteous shall live by faith. We are healed by a gift of grace received by faith. "If
~ Dee Henderson
I know nothing of being a wife, but I have learned much about the running and maintenance of an estate. It may be that you will find my manner too straightforward for your tastes, but, my lord, it is just that - my manner. Would that I die before I give up that part of me.
~ Denise Domning
A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
~ Dennis Miller
Always becoming, never arriving. Life is at a standstill - only ideas flash past. In such confusion I find myself running after them: Hey! Stop! Stop! But they escape, leaving me staring at a grey English spring.
~ Derek Jarman
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
~ Simone Weil
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
~ Emil Zatopek
I don't know anything about life. I only know how to run." Daniel reached his tanned and callused hands out to her. "Then grab hold of me and hang on. We're both scared about where this will end up, and when the hurting will come. If the hurting comes, it will be bad, I already know that. But hang on to me, and we'll find out together, all right?
~ Jennifer Ashley