Run Quotes - page 5

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it. (Douglas William Jerrold)
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. View quote
Helen Keller
God said, Abraham Kill me your son. Abe said, Man you must be puttin' me on. God said No, and Abe said What God said, You can do what you want, Abe, but next time you see Me comin' man, you better run. Abe said, Where you want this killin' done God said, Out on Highway Sixty-One. View quote
Bob Dylan
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. View quote
Bob Dylan
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. View quote
Raymond Williams
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon... View quote
William Butler Yeats
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. View quote
Doris Lessing
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. View quote
Boris Pasternak
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. (Anatole France)
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. View quote
Thomas More
Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool. View quote
Vitruvius
I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me. View quote
Mario Cuomo
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. View quote
Garrett Hardin
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. View quote
William Shakespeare
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. View quote
William Shakespeare
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party- the Democrats for now- is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. View quote
Pat Sajak
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. source. View quote
Chris Martin
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. (Sallust)
The future's too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster. View quote
Frank Iero
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt