Run Quotes - page 2

Bunter: My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. View quote
Harry S. Truman
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. View quote
Aaliyah
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. View quote
John Lennon
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. View quote
George Henry Lewes
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. View quote
Boris Johnson
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. View quote
Henry Miller
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window-or break down a door. (Brooke Shields)
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees - As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. View quote
John Dryden
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership. View quote
Harriet Harman
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. View quote
Michael Jackson
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. View quote
Laura Riding
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. View quote
George William Russell
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. (Helen Keller)
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. View quote
Ray Bradbury
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. View quote
Michael Jordan
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. View quote
Denis Diderot
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. View quote
Denis Diderot