Running Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Preacher, Wells

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.370, Courier Corporation

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• A swing is like a car. You've got the fan belt, carburetor, pistons, spark plugs, fuel pump. If any part isn't working, the car doesn't run. Same way with hitting.

  Wade Boggs

  Swings, Car, Fans

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• Remember you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.

  Taylor Jardine

  Different, Remember, Reason

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• Finding specialty food items was a bit of a challenge in Asia in the early days of getting the Mozza's up and running. Everything is built on relationships, and when you start somewhere new, it takes time to develop that. Staffing can also present challenges.

  Joe Bastianich

  Challenges, Asia, Staffing

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• Take the money and run.

  Woody Allen

  Annie Hall, Chapel, Ponzi Scheme

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.75, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history until the fame of its grassy meadows and fish attracted settlers out of England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of CONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have commenced in a spirit of peace and harmony. It will be Grass-ground River as long as grass grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peacable lives on its banks.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Office, Together

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• If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, World, Carnage

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• The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

  Peter Drucker

  Greatness, Finals, Tests

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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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• We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

  Eliot Spitzer

  New York, Cities, Government

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• I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".

  Bill Maher

  Stupid, Reading, Kids

  "Bill Maher... But I'm Not Wrong". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Want, Meaning Of Life

  Woody Allen (1987). “Three Films of Woody Allen”, Vintage

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• You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them.

  Eddie Murphy

  People, Knees, Causes

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• Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president nowadays, you'd better get out there and say you're a very faith-based person.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, President, Politics

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• Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do. The Republicans always run on the idea that government isn't very effective. Well, not the way you do it. But it can be effective.

  Bill Maher

  College, Ideas, Government

  "Real talk with Bill Maher". Interview with Joan Walsh, www.salon.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Flow, Succeed

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• I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

  Bernie Mac

  Office, Running For Office

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• Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

  Joseph Brodsky

  West, Triumph, Frost

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• New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I've got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eight, Eagles, Eggs

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• The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

  Jim Carrey

  Children, Inner Child

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• I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

  Cathy Freeman

  Share, Dangerous, Turns

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• My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph.

  Cathy Freeman

  Feelings, Triumph, Forthcoming

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