“Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.” ThinkingKnowsMayRunningPoliticalFatherNamesPresidentMiddleBarackKrypton Author:Barack Obama
“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.” MayRunningOpportunityIndividualLeftGoalPathWindPureWeightOneselfBurdenBlockMotiveStoppingTrailsFrustratingDroppingShoutingSidelines Author:Criss Jami
“I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.” MayRealMatterRunningDecisionWorryProductsVisualsMarchGamerHardware Author:J Allard
“Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.” MayLittlesRunningAbilityFlowerRaisesSeedsFables Book:Fifty Poems Source: Fifty Poems
“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.” MenMayDoeRunningDiesEvilCausesCommunityMoralRiskSourceDiseaseLosingLaborMadnessWineSpeciesPreservesPoisonDisorderIdlenessQuarrelsBrutesVigorDegradeAversion Author:Francois Fenelon
“But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.” MayRunningReadingSidesPathDependsConcernShameShiningMisery Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.” KnowsMayLongGovernmentRunningFormDemocracyGraceProveSavingEfficientLong RunsForms Of GovernmentSaving Grace Author:Bill Moyers
“You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.” FeelsBelieveMayLongRunningBeliefQualityPicksSuperiorsSomedayLastingTrendsLong Runs Author:Will Barnet
“Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one.” ShouldMayRunningPresidentShould HavePresidencyPresident Bush Author:David Letterman
“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.” PeopleIfsMayLongRunningCertainBusinessClassAmountHigherCostApproachAddBelieverLong RunsCheap Things Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President
“They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.” IfsFeelsMayRunningPoliticalPoliticsIntelligentJust OneSheriffs Author:Sam Rayburn
“Recognize that it is not really possible to steadily help others when we ourselves are not in good physical, mental, or emotional state. We may be able to carry on for a while, but sooner or later we end up feeling depleted, discouraged, or weak. We cannot keep on giving when we are running on an empty tank. We need to be solid.” NeedsGivingMayEndsStatesHelpingFeelingsMotivationalRunningAbleEmotionalEmptyWeakHelping OthersSooner Or LaterDiscouragedTanks Author:Nhat Hanh
“Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.” MayChildrenTwoRunningHouseStrongTenBuiltStonesFairySheepBricksCherriesPoniesGranite Book:Complete Poems Source: Complete Poems
“If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it's a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there's nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention.” IfsMayIdeasProblemRunningYoungLeftAttentionTalentDemandCoreNew Ideas Author:David Toop
“All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.” PeopleKnowsMindMayStillsWholeRunningFilmGrowsGrowing UpGenerationsAll ThingsStoresWho I AmVideoTake TimeCablesDichotomy Author:Robby Benson
“Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.” MayRunningEffectsGainsStressRunnersErase Author:Jeff Galloway
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” IfsInspirationalYearsMayMotivationalRunningPainLastsTimeSportsGoalHoursForeverMinutesGiving UpDeterminationPerseveranceAthleteQuittingMotivational SportsTemporaryReplacedDayBad AssInspirational SportsAthleticBodybuildingInspirational RunningToughnessI QuitReplacementsMotivational RunningMotivational Inspirational SportsGreat SportsAthlete MotivationalKeep RunningMental StrengthBest SportsReaching Your GoalsShort SportsShort Inspirational SportsGreatest SportsCross Country RunningShort Motivational SportsProfessional AthleteGreat Inspirational SportsGreat DeterminationMental ToughnessGreat Motivational SportsGreatest AthleteAthletic MotivationalAthletic InspirationalLove PainGym FitnessMotivational BodybuildingRace MotivationalGreat AthleticGym WorkoutBreast Cancer InspirationPerseverance SportsCrossfitLove Is PainMotivational SoftballPain Is TemporaryToughness In SportsMotivational SpeechSports Mental Toughness Author:Lance Armstrong
“The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.” WorldMayPhilosophyFactsRunningSpiritualThis WorldImpressionAtmosphere Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.” MayRunningWasteBenefitsAimMethodBlindLaysDeedsTerrorismShakesApesFootstepsZionism Author:David Ben-Gurion
“Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.” WantTryingMayRunningDesireExpressionTasteMachinesAimVanityManifestationDescriptionSpecificationsAdequacyTrying To Be Happy Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer