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Quotes About Running

We do not rest because now I know what we are running from, and it looks a lot like death.
~ Samantha Hunt
What do you want to change in the world?" she continued her recitation, looking away. "What do you want to preserve? What is the thing you're searching for? What are you running away from?" "Nothing," he said. "And nothing. And nothing. And…nothing, at least that I know.
~ Samuel R. Delany
When is thirty is a fond memory, the more days that pass without exercise the worse you feel going back to it. Then too, I'm undisciplined in a way that makes it easier to exercise than to diet, and the running helps keep my weight down.
~ Sara Paretsky
The new joy of speed, the urgency of coming night, the hope of reunion with his boy – these things transformed him into something that shot like liquid fire between the trees. Something gravity couldn't touched. Pax could have run forever.
~ Sara Pennypacker
Two joggers passed, shoes cheerfully slapping against the pavement.
~ Sara Shepard
My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.
~ Nina Dobrev
We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.
~ Richard J. Daley
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.
~ Gordon Ramsay
That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.
~ Gwenno
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.
~ Jeff Galloway
I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
~ John Howard
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run
~ Amby Burfoot
Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.
~ Barack Obama
I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
Actually, I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself. 2:23:11 is a very good time - a very good time for a woman that is.
~ Robert Johnson
The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.
~ Sarah Manguso
Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall
~ Thom Yorke
As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.
~ Timothy Miller
I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
~ Walter Payton
Youth ministry may be one of the only professions that has settled into the pattern of handing over total responsibility for running an organization to young people just out of college. Far too often, anxiety, not wisdom, drives us.
~ Mark DeVries
I crossed Homewood and ran up the block. The joy multiplied as I ran--I ran never actually quite leaving the ground--and multiplied still as I felt my stride begin to fumble and my knees begin to quiver and stall. The joy multiplied even as I slowed bumping to a walk. I was all but splitting, all but shooting sparks. Blood coursed freely inside my lungs and bones, a light-shot stream like air. I couldn't feel the pavement at all.
~ Annie Dillard