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"Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)"
"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."
"Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all."
"He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own."
"Victory is only wrested by running risks."
"Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have."
"I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry."
"People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer."
"It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South."
"Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because you're pouring your heart out and you're not mitigating it with any humor or anything."
"If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life."
"Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it."
"I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House."
"If Bill Gates left Microsoft we wouldn't allow Donald Trump to run it."
"There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company."
"The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause."
"He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in."
"Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin"
"Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed."
"The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities."
