Quotes about running
running get-better why-not
If I can get better, why not? Emil Zatopek
running crazy people
When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow,slow,slow. People said, 'Emil, you are crazy. You are training like a sprinter.'
running pain not-giving-up
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
running practice romance
Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
running race week
I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.
running dog thinking
If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.
running athlete enough
I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time
running want different
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
running dream fitness
A runner must run with dreams in his heart.
running jobs new-york
You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American. Emeril Lagasse
running philosophy wine
I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.
running dog men
We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age. Elmer Davis
running ducks water
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. Ellen Swallow Richards
running good-friend doing-you
It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed. Elizabeth Perkins
running imagination enthusiasm
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. Ella Maillart
running dying earth
The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
running song flying
Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom. Ella Fitzgerald
running sex heart
I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? Elizabeth Smart
running cities way
I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city. Elayne Boosler
running extremely-funny said
I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.
running military another-day
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day. Edward Thorndike
running misery spit
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery. Holly Black
running thinking people
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue. Hermann Hesse
running stars fall
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
running heart fate
. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine. , the wound was not blossoming yet, his heart was still fighting his fate, cheerfulness and victory were not yet shining from his suffering. Nevertheless, he felt hope
running tired rocks
We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore. Henry Taylor
running philosophy men
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
running differences appreciate
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. Henry Steele Commager
running home men
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there. Henry Vaughan
running courage children
The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage. Henry Van Dyke
running gratitude two
Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
running angel night
I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
running distance sea
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.