Run Quotes

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. (Abraham Lincoln)
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. View quote
Sallust
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. View quote
Horace
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. View quote
Sydney Smith
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. View quote
George Burns
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. View quote
Will Rogers
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. View quote
Mae West
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! View quote
Winston Churchill
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself. View quote
Tove Jansson
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. View quote
W. H. Auden
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. View quote
Babe Ruth
Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
You cannot run faster than a bullet. View quote
Idi Amin
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. View quote
Dan Quayle
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. (Learned Hand)
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. View quote
Learned Hand
Either you run the day or the day runs you. View quote
Jim Rohn
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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