Quotations About / On: RUNNING

  • 1.
    A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
    (Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839-1908), British novelist. "Moths," Wisdom, Wit and Pathos (1884).)
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  • 2.
    Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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    Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
    (Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter. Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Full Metal Jacket, shooting aimlessly at Vietnamese (1987). Adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel The Short Timers.)
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  • 4.
    The aphorist is a hit and run artist.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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    The moon will run all consciences to cover....
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Ditty.")
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    It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
    (Ferdinand E. Marcos (1917-1981), Filipino politician, president. Time (New York, June 6, 1977).)
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    I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight.
    (Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), U.S. president. Press conference release (August 2, 1927). Released on fourth anniversary of Coolidge's becoming president.)
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    The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-Interest always runs a good race.
    (Gough Whitlam (b. 1916), Australian Labor politician, prime minister. Daily Telegraph (London, Oct. 19, 1989).)
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  • 9.
    In an English dinner-party ... I have never known small-talk run short!
    (Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British author, mathematician, clergyman. Narrator, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Macmillan (1893).)
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  • 10.
    I suspect victims; they win in the long run.
    (Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), British novelist, story writer, essayist, and memoirist; born in Ireland. From Eva Trout (1968). As quoted in Elizabeth Bowen, ch. 13, by Victoria Glendinning (1979).)
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