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T. S. Eliot quote: "In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite..."
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. T. S. Eliot
Ken Kesey quote: "you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the..."
...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy Ken Kesey
C. S. Lewis quote: "Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are."
Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are. C. S. Lewis
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours, man-hours, using labor more efficiently. Don DeLillo
Milan Kundera quote: "Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction,..."
Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines. Milan Kundera
Rudyard Kipling quote: "The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out,"..."
The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. Rudyard Kipling
So let's say my bad luck did crash the plane. What exactly are were you going to do about it?' 'Why is the plane crashing?' He was trying to hide a smile now. 'The piolets are passed out and drunk.' 'Easy. I'd fly the plane.' Of course. I pursed my lips and tried again. 'Both engines have exploded and we're falling in a death spiral towards the earth.' 'I'd wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then, I'd run you back to the scene of... Stephenie Meyer
But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get out of hand. A relationship based on jokes invites jokes; jokes about anything -- and jokes about anything are now and then bound to cut too close to the truth. Ken Kesey
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next? Jodi Picoult
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again. Robinson Jeffers
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs. Henry David Thoreau
Symptomatic of this rural-urban identity crisis is our eager embrace of a recently imposed divide: the Red States and the Blue States. That color map comes to us with the suggestion that both coasts are populated by educated civil libertarians, while the vast middle and south are criss-crossed with the studded tracks of ATVs leaving a trail of flying beer cans and rebel yells. Okay, I'm exaggerating a little. But I certainly sense a bit of that when urban friends ask me how I can stand living... Barbara Kingsolver
Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love. Shirley Jackson
[...] and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far more in common than we do not have in common. Doug Coupland
By the time you've run your mind through it a hundred times, relentlessly worked out every tic of terror, it's lost its power over you......[Soon it's] a story on a page or, more precisely, everybody's story on a page. John Gardner

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