Outrun Quotes - Page 2

• Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

  Aesop

  Reality, Anticipation, Mere

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.57, Aesop

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• It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Sight, Imagination, Sound

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

  Lisa Alther

  France

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

  William Golding

  Horse, Fire, Galloping

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.144, Hamilton Books

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• For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

  Gary Kemp

  Real, Past, Years

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• I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Running, Thinking, Mopeds

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• Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Good Life, Tongue

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• If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

  Alice Hoffman

  Attention, World, Understood

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• So, let's make a deal: If you do not voice all the withering comments about the weight or uselessness of this jacket that are no doubt swirling in that big brain of yours, then I will not mention the super-laser episode again. Agreed?" This jacket is really cutting into my shoulders, thought Artemis. And it's so heavy that I could not outrun a slug. But he said, "Agreed.

  Eoin Colfer

  Cutting, Voice, Brain

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• I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.

  Marie Lu

  Tired, Used, Knows

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.59, Penguin

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• To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

  Henri Bergson

  Mean, Perception, Perceive

  "Matter and Memory".

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• Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

  John Dewey

  Education, Communication, Science

  John Dewey (1978). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.77, SIU Press

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• Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running.

  Julie Isphording

  Running, Determination, Fun

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• All promise outruns performance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Promise, Performances

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• Can we outrun the heavens?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.203, Hackett Publishing

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• Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Reputation, Human Condition

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• We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Balance, Swiftness

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• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

  Patrick Ness

  Army, Thinking, People

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• That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Imagination, Littles

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• For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Spiritual, War

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• The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.

  Francisco Leon

  Motivational, Past, Greatest Victory

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• I surprised myself with my ability to run. It's kind of like tippy toe running. I would not be able to outrun Indominus Rex, but with enough practice I might be able to make it 40 or 50 feet before I was killed.

  Chris Pratt

  Running, Practice, Feet

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Hands, Focus

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• We're not going to stop trying to live big. It's about transforming your stress so that it doesn't take over. The first step is to realize that it is there and that you are trying to outrun your fear.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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