Outran Quotes

#1. But no matter what their friends told them, they would always know what really happened. They just kept driving faster, and outran the rain.

B.J. Novak

#2. The damn hawker nearly caught the bumper." More amazed than angry now, Eve shook her head. "A guy in air boots nearly outran a cop ride. What's the world coming to, Peabody?" Eyes stubbornly shut, Peabody didn't move a muscle. "I'm sorry, sir, you're interrupting my praying.

J.D. Robb

#3. In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

Christopher McDougall

#4. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

Herman Melville

#5. The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

William Bernbach

#6. As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth,
as well have a hollow as a heart.

Robert Hayden

#7. What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears divinity, to any others profanation.

William Shakespeare

#8. Like our bodies and our hearts had to be together to make one whole, perfect person.

James Patterson

#9. ...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.

Kathleen Smith

#10. If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter." ...

Catherine Marshall

#11. Later, when she came to know of the letters he wrote to Congress about Darfur, the teenagers he tutored at the high school on Dixwell, the shelter he volunteered at, she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine but had, instead, a firm reed of goodness.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie