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Keep Running Quotes

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
- Mitch Albom

Livia, when I count to three, I want to you to run into the trees," Blake whispered. "And keep running. Promise me." He sounded calm and determined.
"Absolutely not." Livia turned from their escape route. "I'm never leaving you."
"Livia, please." Blake squeezed her hand and tried to force her in the right direction.
She squeezed right back.
- Debra Anastasia

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.
- Roger Bannister

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.
- Anne Tyler

My dear sister, you can't escape God, and you can't escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior facade of 'everything is alright' only works for a little while, and then the cracks begin to show. You can only hide behind yourself for so long. You can't keep running!
- Corallie Buchanan

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
- R A Butler

He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let him go even if I tried. Alex took a piece of my heart, but that doesn't mean my life has to be on hold. I can't keep running after ghosts.
- Simone Elkeles

I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.
- James Frey

...cursing my heels and debating whether it was faster to stop and take them off--damn ankle straps!--or keep running with the potential neck breakers. Wouldn't that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
- Jeaniene Frost

You keep running and one day when you stop running your going to fall, and I'm going to be there to catch you.
- Gena Showalter

...'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead.
- Sylvia Plath

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.
- Rickey Henderson

I don't play chess, but I was able to beat the machine once when I threatened to rip out its torso (the sewing machine) and put it to work in a cotton field in the Florida heat. I said if it didn't let me win I'd put it to work so hard that clothing sweatshops the world over would become obsolete. Now there's a crazy idea: machines instead of children making clothing. But that would never work, because the machines require too much candy to keep running.
- Jarod Kintz

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
- Victor Kiam

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday..
- John Mayer

So you keep running after the things you want, because you think they will satisfy you - and you truly do think that in the past they gave you satisfaction. But the satisfaction itself, the real feeling of it, somehow slips the net. It's anticipated and remembered but almost never experienced.
- Kate Morgenroth

You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won't be far behind you.
- Chloe Neill

He clearly wasn't dissuaded, and stroked my jawline with his thumb. You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won't be far behind you.
- Chloe Neill

Ethan: You can run. You can keep running to the ends of
the earth. But I won't be far behind you.
No. I will never be far behind you.
- Chloe Neill

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
- Steve Prefontaine

Keep me preoccupied
Keep me busy, busy, busy
So I won't have to think
I don't want to think
Because it only brings me pain
I just keep running away from
My problems
Keep me busy
Give me a million things to do
So I can keep running away from myself.
- Henry Rollins

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.
- Nicolas Sarkozy

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.
- Sidney Sheldon

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.
- Gladys Bagg Taber

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!
- Keith Urban

He looked right into her and then he said, In a second I'm going to ask you if you're okay. Your answer is extremely important. If you can keep fighting, or at least keep running, you have to say 'yes'. Otherwise we have to run away and let them win this one. Now. Are you okay?
- David Wellington

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