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Quotes About Running

Remember, you don't have to outrun the zombie. You just have to outrun your friends.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
~ Melina Marchetta
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
~ Nelson Mandela
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.
~ Mark Twain
In its current form, modern running is a high risk contact sport.
~ John Durant
Barefoot running is often described as a fad—one that will fizzle after a few years. But as Dr. Lieberman says, "If barefoot running is a fad, then it's a two-million-year-old fad.
~ John Durant
What is the homeland to which we are running? Christ said: "I am the Truth." You run through Him, you run to Him, and you rest in Him.
~ John E. Rotelle
Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from!
~ John Eyberg
Unlike humans, rodents seem to inherently enjoy physical activity, and Cotman's mice ran several kilometers a night. They were divided into four groups: mice running for two, four, or seven nights, and one control group with no running wheel. When their brains were injected with a molecule that binds to BDNF and scanned, not only did the scans of the running rodents show an increase in BDNF over controls, but the farther each mouse ran, the higher the levels were.
~ John J. Ratey
What it means is that you have the power to change your brain. All you have to do is lace up your running shoes.
~ John J. Ratey
The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.
~ John Jackson Miller
Running is the most elemental sport there is. We are genetically programmed to do it.
~ John Jerome
The wolves are running.
~ John Masefield
I start to run down the hill, but did I mention I can't feel my feet? They slip out from under me. I tumble head over heels, down, down, down until I splash into a stream. The icy water soaks through my clothes and bites into my skin. Why couldn't Elsa have had warm magical powers?
~ Elise Allen
Trust my insider knowledge when I tell you that the only thing more frustrating than running out of variegated peach embroidery floss halfway to Aldebaran is being the shipmate of somebody who has run out of variegated peach embroidery floss halfway to Aldebaran.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Five hounds now, not four, Kit saw, and the fifth one white as starlight on snowdrifts, running strongly alongside the others, like an idealized alabaster statue rather than any real hound, even a transformed one.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The irony makes me laugh myself sick: think for a moment of ripping myself free, taking Elspeth and Gabe and running for the hells-and find out my gorgeous justification is already part of the prime minister's audacious plan for world cooperation-By the time I'm done, wiping tears onto the back of my left hand, everybody else by the windows is staring at me. I shake my head helplessly and grab Ellie's hand.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Declining emissions and rising atmospheric concentrations point to a stubborn fact about carbon dioxide: once it's in the air, it stays there. How long, exactly, is a complicated question; for all intents and purposes, though, CO2 emissions are cumulative. The comparison that's often made is to a bathtub. So long as the tap is running, a stoppered tub will continue to fill. Turn the tap down, and the tub will still keep filling, just more slowly. To
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
The desire to run so far that he wouldn't be able to catch up played through me, but in my gut, I knew he would. And somehow, it filled me with an odd sense of safety, knowing that, no matter how far I ran, he would always be able to catch me, and I would always want him to.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
there was no Russian army anymore to fight. "They have voted with their feet by running away," Lenin said sardonically.
~ Arthur Herman
All our skill at disproving things is like a wall we build between us and wonder. To jump that wall, you need a long running start.-The Tragedy of Arthur
~ Arthur Phillips
Llegamos a la costa con el resto del regimiento y los daneses y los mondieus pegados a los talones, bang-bang y todo el mundo corriendo, maricón el último.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Correr sólo vale para morir cansado.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte