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“You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.”
“You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.”
“You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.”
Source: Rosie Dunne
“You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.”
“You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
“You can run but you can't hide”
Source: Love the One You're With
“You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.”
Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices
“You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.”
“You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.”
Source: How to Ruin a Summer Vacation
“You can run from the grave, but you can't hide.”
Source: One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth.
You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.”
“You can run I will chase you. You can hide I will find you. We're gonna fight and I'm gonna hurt you.”
“You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.”
Source: Controlled Violence: On the Field and in the Booth
“you can run out of garlic, you can't really run out of music”
“You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.”
“You can run to your destination or you can walk to your destination, or you can fly to your destination and even you can crawl to your destination! The only thing you need to pay attention is to head towards your target!”
“You can run, but you can't hide, Cupcake." Morelli said. "I'll find you." "You are such a cop." "Tell me about it.”
Source: Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.”
“You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.”
Source: Play of Passion
“You can sacred strength for every situation, which you conquer.”
“You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.”
“You can sacrifice depth of knowledge for more effectiveness on whatever level you’re on.”
Source: sciVive
“You can sacrifice your dreams, your peace, your sleep, and even your smile and happiness for someone, and they will still find a reason to say it wasn’t enough.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.”
“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
“You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.”
“You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!””
“You can save a lot of time waiting on God.”
“You can save hundred words with just one look!”
“You can save people's lives but you can't save them from life!”
“You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.”
“You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an "ass." Unless you're British, calling someone an ass really doesn't work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag.”
“You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.”
“You can say 'Thanks,' and you can say 'Thanks a Million' - but any number in between?”
“You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.”
“You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers. In that first week at the Creek, the cafeteria served fried chicken, chicken fried steak, and fried okra, which marked my first foray into the delicacy that is the fried vegetable.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.”
“You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“You can say all the right things, for all the right reasons, but if you're talking to the wrong people, it will never matter.”
“You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!”
“You can say anything if enough people will listen.”
“You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.”
“You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.”
“You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.”
“You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.”
“You can say anything you want to say. I'm just Bill Foley.”
“You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop.”
Source: Memoirs
“You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.”
Source: Hallucinating Foucault