R Quotes
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“Running should be free, man.”
“Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased.”
“Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.”
“Running steps approached, and then Nesta rounded a tent, skidding to a halt in the mud.
She let out a sob at the sight of Elain, still in Azriel's arms. I'd never heard a sound like that from her. Not once.
She isn't hurt, I said to her, into that chamber in her mind. Because words... I couldn't form them.
Nesta broke into another sprint. I reached for Rhysand, his face taut as he stalked for us-
But Nesta got there first.
I swallowed my shout of pain as Nesta's arms went around my neck and she embraced me so hard it snatched my breath away.
Her body shook- shook as she sobbed and said over and over and over, 'Thank you.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Running suggests that I’m either haunted by fear or driven by conviction. And which of these two I’m responding to will determine if I’m running ‘from’ something or running ‘to’ something.”
“Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.”
“Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.”
Source: Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
“Running the gauntlet of the trials and tribulations of life, we accumulate an array of useful habits and self-defeating behavior. A personal routine that customary characteristics garner positive traits must be cultivated with care. We must ruthlessly discard the bad habits of yesterday along with any notion that one will appease a restless soul’s willful temperament with acceptance of any degree of personal slovenliness. Injecting new challenges into our lives can assist us recognize when we have allowed apathy and stale habits to dampen our spirit and dull our minds. Rejection of all forms of personal inadequacy and casting aside familiar tapestries opens our eyes to rediscover the unsullied sensation of living vigorously.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of... pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to define things. I'm trying to explore things. I'm trying to ask questions.”
“Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.”
“Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains simple- following your heart and pursuing your life purpose.”
“Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.”
“Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.”
“Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“Running to stand still -Lena”
“Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.”
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle the same." Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. for it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.”
“Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.”
“Running was the only sport that could not be segregated by the government, could not be kept down by oppression, could not be bought out from under the feet of my peers. They could not, you see - they could not segregate the roads. Not during the day, anyway.”
Source: The Force of Such Beauty
“Running wasn't easy, but it was easier than trusting Andrew. But Neil remembered the weight of a key in his palm, its metal soaked through with another person's body heat. He remembered Andrew's promise to see this year through with him.”
Source: The Raven King
“Running water is perceived as being filled with vitality.”
Source: A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination
“Running water never grows stale.”
Source: Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art
“Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.”
“Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks”
“Running will make you stronger, more disciplined & clear headed all of which will improve your professional output & expand your self-faith”
“Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.”
“Running with dogs is like dancing with winter”
“Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.”
“running with sharp knives
never got me so far
but running with you
seemed lovely”
“Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.”
“Running your own race means embracing your dreams and shifting towards them and not letting anyone discourage you from your goals or dreams. Create your NAPS with this in mind!”
Source: NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
“Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.”
“Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.”
Source: The Ultimate Athlete
“Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.”
“Runny's Nicpic One day Runny Babbit Met little Franny Fog. He said, "Let's have a nicpic Down by the lollow hog." He brought some cutter bookies, Some teanuts and some pea. And what did Franny Fog bring? Her whole fog framily.”
“Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror
and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing
and the night cold and the night long and the river
to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning
and blackness ahead”
Source: Collected Poems
“Runway
***
Flight of love-thought
Lands only on the heart-runway
Such thought also flies
In my mind
But unfortunately,
I cannot locate that runway
For stable and secure landing.
---
Ehsan Sehgal”
“Runway is the time you have left before your startup starves to death. It’s the number of months, weeks, or days your company can survive on the cash you have before you run out and everyone realizes your “brilliant idea” wasn’t so brilliant after all.”
Source: Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.
“Rupee is Falling → Strengthen exports, reduce dependence on imports, and attract foreign capital through policy stability.”
“Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.”
“Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal.”
“Rupert looked down at the little upturned face with its mass of freckles and marigold curls and a wave of tenderness for Muriel swept over him. She could so easily have wanted to choose someone of her own. “I think you’re going to be absolutely beautiful,” he said.”
Source: A Countess Below Stairs
“Rupert Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship in order to buy television stations in the United States, which is symptomatic of the way Murdoch operates. Everything is for sale, including his birthright. The Mirror is not read by soccer hooligans. It's read by ordinary people of this country. That comment is simply patronizing. But to be criticized by the Moonies and Murdoch in one breath is really just a fine moment for me.”
“Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.”
“Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.”
“Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.”
“Ruptures are a daily occurrence in all our relationships and ... our systems only need to receive resonance and reflection on the first try at connecting about 33 percent of the time to cultivate security. All the rest is optimally rupture and repair.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Ruptures should inform the shape of relationships going forward. we should relate differently based on what's happened, now that we've learned something about who the other actually is and who we are. if not, we risk falling into the same patterns that didn't work before.”
Source: What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
“Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.”