Run Quotes

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

I drink protein shakes nonstop - three or four a day - and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through.

The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

I run to see who has the most guts.

Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.