Long Runs Quotes - Page 10

• But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Running, Jobs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Pigs in Heaven: Novel, A”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

  Agatha Christie

  Running, Lying, Long

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1953). “FUNERALS ARE FATAL”

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• We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Running, Fall, Getting Back Up

  Mercedes Lackey (2010). “Intrigues: Book Two of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)”, p.18, Penguin

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• Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

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• My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.

  George Saunders

  Running, Nice, Long

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• When we're younger we take our bodies for granted because they're top-notch. You don't always think in the long run.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Running, Thinking, Long

  "Jennifer Aniston on Battling Dry Eyes and the New Herb She Thinks You Should Try". Interview with Sara Gaynes Levy, www.glamour.com. August 26, 2016.

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• I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

  Al Sharpton

  Running, Thinking, Two

  "Rev. Al Sharpton Defends Eric Holder". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes and Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2008.

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• I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the long run.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Running, Thinking, Clear Goals

  "Singer-Songwriter José González: Live and Let Live". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Running, Pride, Men

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Strong, Long

  Source: bukowski.net

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• That's the problem with the financial sector. Banks and the financial sector live in the short run, not the long run. In principle the government is supposed to make regulations that help the economy over time. But once it's taken over by the financial sector, the government lives in the short run too.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Taken, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

  P. C. Cast

  Running, Lying, Long

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.477, Macmillan

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• I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

  Harry West

  Running, Past, Thinking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. That's what's missing.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, Government, Long

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• An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Running

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Running, Party, Heart

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• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.126, tredition

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Death, Running

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Long, Affair

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Funny, Life, Running

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• It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Country, Long

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• An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Long, People

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary and political addresses”

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• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  Garrett Hardin

  Running, Mistake, Thinking

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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