Quotes About Chase

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

Outwardness does to inwardness what light does to darkness: it chases it away.

I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.

I loved Keaton. In fact, when I made the chase sequence in 'What's Up, Doc,' I said, 'This is a Buster Keaton chase.'

Barcelona don't bring in players for the sake of 'well if things get tough, we can always bring defenders on or we can have a guy in the middle who is going to run around and kick people and chase them.'

The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.

You would bound off faster than a hare if I were such a fool." He grasped her shoulders and pulled her close. "I would advise against running from me. I would catch you easily, and the chase would only arouse me." When she tried to shrug his hands off her shoulders, he said, "Is this the fashion in which you thank me for freeing you?" he teased. "You might grant me a boon for my efforts.

I ran faster than a demon from Hell breaking out with Cerberus snapping at its heels.

Moi ? C'est une image que je poursuis, rien de plus.

In the fourth level, for example, Alice, after a major operation, becomes separated from her body, and she has to chase through the hospital to catch it, like Peter Pan and his shadow. This dissociation was something Sam had experienced many times—the feeling that your body, when it was sick, was no longer your own.

We used to chase each other like this. Two kids flirting in a way only a handful of people on Earth could ever match. He with his acrobatics, and me with my ballet.

Hay un gran peligro substancioso en ir a cazar lo insubstancial

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

One of our closest relatives in nature, the Bonobo ape, long ago learned what these programs prove: that female alliances are the key to safety. When a female Bonobo is bullied by a male, other females will chase him off.

the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.

that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular whale

How obvious it is it, too, that this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.

Ma quando viaggiando non facciamo altro che inseguire i remoti misteri di cui sogniamo, o dare la caccia in modo straziante a quel fantasma demoniaco che prima o poi nuota davanti a ogni cuore umano; allora, quando diamo la caccia a cose del genere tutt'intorno a questo tondo globo, tali cose ci portano all'interno di sterili labirinti, oppure ci lasciano sommersi a metà strada.

As in a dream a man is not able to follow one who runs 200  from him, nor can the runner escape, nor the other pursue him, so he could not run him down in his speed, nor the other get clear.

and his body responding with that maddening slowness from which one suffers when chased by the phantoms of nightmare.

There was a scream of tortured rubber as the tyres caught the boulevard in a harsh left-handed turn, the deafening echo of a Citroën's exhaust in second gear, a crash into top, then a swiftly diminishing crackle as the car hared off between the shops on the main street towards the coast-road.