Running Quotes - Page 20

• Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Lying, Islamic, Europe

  "La forza della ragione (The Force of Reason)". Book by Oriana Fallaci (p. 34), 2004.

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• When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Criminals, Prison, Honorable

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• I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Conservative, Ifs

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• African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Responsibility, People, Needs

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• We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

  George Orwell

  Military, Believe, Long

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.174, HMH

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• To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Morning, Winter

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• I learned about stress management from my kids. Every night after work, I drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run around the house in my underwear screaming like a monkey.

  Randy Glasbergen

  Stress, Kids, Night

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• Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Past, Soul

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the car out myself. I like to be driven around. Yes, I like fancy cars, and fancy bikes, too. It's my dream to learn how to ride one myself, but for now, I am content being driven around.

  Bipasha Basu

  Dream, Real, Fancy Cars

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• One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Risk, Desire, Destruction

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

  Francis Beaumont

  Soul, Doubt, Lasts

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.433

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• Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Dog, Cat, Men

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• We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Fun, Answers, Hips

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• I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

  Ziggy Marley

  Jamaica, Cities, Concrete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

  Ziggy Marley

  Stress, Who I Am, Medicine

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I run four times a week. And I don't count miles - I don't do that. I don't care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel.

  Ziggy Marley

  Care, Four, Week

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

  Ziggy Marley

  Thinking, People, Leader

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at mommy and daddy, running the show.

  Ziggy Marley

  Kids, America, Daddy

  "A little Family Time talk with Ziggy Marley". Cookie Magazine Interview, www.bckonline.com. May 6, 2009.

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• I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

  Kristen Stewart

  Mean, Home, Successful

  "Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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• The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.

  Alan Grayson

  Wall, Military, Oil

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• The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Oil, World, Best Business

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Battle, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hair, Faces, Sometimes

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.46, GENERAL PRESS

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• Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.

  John C. Maxwell

  Long, Leader, Failing

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• Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'

  Pamela Anderson

  Jesus, Thinking, Giving

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