It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

I talked about everything, man. I’ve always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.

I am just believing myself and running, alright. This world is deep and we are going for it, up all night.

The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples and brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire. We cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the “happiness of mankind” as its promise.

I don’t worry about great visuals that they showed that weren’t actually running on real hardware. It doesn’t matter. Gamers don’t make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

LOL could go and take a running jump. I wasn’t made for illiteracy; it simply didn’t come naturally.

He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again, now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.

People see me now and ask if I’m still running. I may look like I am, but I’m really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I’m a very goal-oriented person.

But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.

Over the long run, many of Perry’s stances boil down to following the money.

There’s always been that theory that if a candidate can’t run a decent campaign, he probably can’t run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

You know, I really miss sex scandals. They’re generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they’re going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

He knew he was at last answering the call, running by the side of his wood brother toward the place from where the call surely came. Old memories were coming upon him fast, and he was stirring to them as of old he stirred to the realities of which they were the shadows. He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall

When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around

I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between football and tennis, and I went for tennis.

You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That’s basically what I’m doing. I’m running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.

It doesn’t always click for a new player in a new team: you don’t always go in and hit the ground running and score all the time.

Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away.

I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don’t run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That’s how I know that the workouts are working – I miss them if I don’t have them.

I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

Once I’m awake, I’m awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.

I don’t like running when I’m holding things in my hand, whether it’s a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

I can get runs much faster if I stay there in the middle to give bowlers more time and cushion.

Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.

Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the pie bigger than otherwise possible in the long run. The rich got the bigger slice of the pie all right, but they have actually reduced the pace at which the pie is growing.

President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen.

Justice is what you get when you run out of money.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Oh, right! Because that’s what Thanksgiving is all about—running around with a bunch of stupid birds and going on rides. Fine, go. But you know what? I am not making dinner!”

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

I personally thank Rahul Gandhi. He has given me complete free hand in running the government.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

It’s easy to pretend ‘to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self promotion. We don’t stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rapid on our watch. Real fearless and fierce women complement other women and we recognize and embrace that their shine in no way diminishes our light and that it actually makes our light shine brighter.

Because you’d be running after your own unhappiness.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Failure is painful when your opponent is laughing, but there is a pride in facing defeat without running away.

It’s still my legs that are doing the running, not the shoe.

I started running because my neighbor, Patrick Sang, was an athlete and I wanted to be just like him.

If athletes can go near their fans, many people would develop a love for running.

To me, running is life. I run to live longer and enjoy a healthier life.

I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited.

I saw people celebrating all over the country, Kenya… will be united and in future Kenya will be a running nation.

I’m running out of words to describe this lad.

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body.

I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It’s the way I am. I love it.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

When you’re running a restaurant, you have to change with the times; otherwise, the times will change you.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself, honey, here I come!

I wouldn’t trust you running a bath let alone a restaurant.

The moment people talk of “implementing” instead of “doing,” and of “finalizing” instead of “finishing,” the organization is already running a fever.

I wouldn’t trust you running a bath let alone a restaurant.

Ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.

I’ll take care of my men first. Frozen troops can’t fight. If we run out of ammunition, we’ll go to the bayonet.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we’re running it.

People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

Running water never grows stale. So you have to keep flowing

It’s me love that you’re running from

Let love come running in, darling

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency.

We don’t want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives.

People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!

Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs.

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn’t want you to know something, it won’t be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?” She smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can.” No arguments will give courage to the coward

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all

I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running.

Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I’ve probably made