Top 100 Quotes About Not Running
#1. Over on the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley recently spoke about the need for Wall Street reform and said that he isn't running for president to be quote, 'wined and dined' by executives. Then Chris Christie said, 'And I am also not running to be wined.'
Jimmy Fallon
#2. One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.
Herman Cain
#3. I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.
Mitt Romney
#4. Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.
Nick Cave
#5. We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.
Hillary Clinton
#6. How far will you run, before you realize you're not running away from me? You're running to me.
Joey W. Hill
#7. In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#8. I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
John Howard
#9. Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.
Suzy Favor Hamilton
#10. We're about to run our heads against the same unyielding barrier, and once again, the brass seem to have concluded that our approach isn't working because we're not running at the wall fast enough.
Marko Kloos
#11. I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
John Major
#12. Shifter: "You're not running for your life. You're running for you freedom."
Ryan: "It's the same thing!
B.N. Mauldin
#13. I'm not going to hurt you, Naomi. I'm not going to cheat on you, or lie to you, or leave you. I'm not going to look at the dark parts of you and think they're ugly. I'm not running from you. I'm here, baby. I'm right here, and I'm knocking on the door. Let me in. Let me in.
Marysol James
#14. I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state. I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.
John Mellencamp
#15. The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.
Jakaya Kikwete
#16. In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
#17. The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Leonard Cohen
#18. I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes.
Bobby Jindal
#19. Well, I'm not running away from home, I'm running away to home." "Oh,
Sara Pennypacker
#20. My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.
Suzy Amis
#21. People are not running to build coal facilities because of the price of natural gas, but we do see them being constructed, and there is an interest in fuel diversity, so we took the exercise pretty seriously.
Gina McCarthy
#22. Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.
Joe Biden
#23. I say what I think. I'm a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who's afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear, I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I'm not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I'm a sassy girl.
Katy Perry
#24. I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do.
Hillary Clinton
#25. Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.
Alan DeNiro
#26. I like comedy that's not political but social, dealing with issues of people talking to each other. No matter what your politics, we still have to live with each other. Politics is taking a side. I'm not running for office, you know?
Michael Che
#28. My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children ...
Michele Bachmann
#29. Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
Ralph Steadman
#30. I'm not running a Fortune 500 company here. I'm not a bank controller. I run a gym. You have to expect a certain amount of sex. We're dealing with bodies, and trainers are very into being beautiful, so you're going to have people who are attracted to each other.
Jackie Warner
#31. But as much as being the person who is the best Christian, who "follows Jesus" the most closely can feel a little seductive, it's simply never been who I am or who my parishioners need me to be. I'm not running after Jesus. Jesus is running my ass down.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#32. I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.
Lisa Kleypas
#33. You do not understand your job. You are not running an election, you are not winning wealth. You are being taken care of. But you cannot pocket anything. Whatever comes to you: "Unto Thee, unto Thee, Oh Lord, unto Thee."
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#34. I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.
Criss Jami
#35. If you're chasing your dream, you're not running fast enough. Run faster
Puff Daddy
#36. Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.
June Jordan
#37. I'm not running for some Americans but for all Americans.
Hillary Clinton
#38. Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.
Joss Whedon
#39. I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.
Tina Yothers
#40. Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.
Allen Boyd
#41. It's not running away if you're running toward something.
Nina Lane
#42. When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.
Dan Hill
#43. Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it
you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting.
Rodney Yee
#45. We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.
Donald Rumsfeld
#46. I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.
George Clooney
#47. The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.
Heath Ledger
#48. Bankers make money, too, but I'm not running up into Chase and throwing milk shakes at the homie selling subprime mortgages.
Eddie Huang
#49. I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres - being a first-term senator.
Hillary Clinton
#50. I think the first thing we need to talk about is you not running around in tight T-shirts and yoga pants." "Fine. I'll stop doing that as soon as you shave." Jack ran his hand along his jaw and grinned. "You like the scruff, huh?" Did she ever.
Julie James
#51. When you live in shackles to other people's opinions and moods and judgments, it is the equivalent of becoming a human streamer. And you're better than that. You're meant to be in the driver's seat of your life, not running alongside the car, trying to catch up!
Mandy Hale
#52. We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.
Dan Marino
#53. We have decided to lock people up for social deviancy these days. We tell ourselves that we're not running debtors' prisons, that this isn't Dickensian
Linda Tirado
#54. I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
Carl Lewis
#56. Admitting we are not God - not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things - doesn't belittle us; it frees us.
Louie Giglio
#57. The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
Bam Margera
#58. If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
Randy Pausch
#59. I watched my beautiful sister running ... and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
Alice Sebold
#60. There are no standards and no possible victories except the joy you are living while dancing your run. You are not running for some future reward-the real reward is now!
Fred Rohe
#61. I am the one,
Not Running,
Not Staying,
But FACING
Rick Yancey
#62. Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper ...
John J. Ainsworth
#64. I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!
Bobby Jindal
#65. That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.
Ashton Eaton
#66. We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
Paul Newman
#68. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.
Sparky Anderson
#69. He said he thought I was about twenty. Which is still too young. But not running-from-the-law young.
Kirsten Reed
#70. I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.
Andy Stern
#71. I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore.
Jamie Dornan
#73. I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.
Joseph Heller
#74. Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.
Terry Fox
#75. What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.
Rudy Giuliani
#76. I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.
John McCain
#77. I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president ...
Marco Rubio
#78. Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.
John Connolly
#79. If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.
Marianne Williamson
#80. Love is not running away or giving up, it is standing and fighting for every moment.
M.F. Moonzajer
#81. Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.
Mark Russell
#82. Stupid old boys' network ... That's why we're not running the world, huh, girlie? 'Cause when women see a younger version of us, it just makes us angry.
Brian K. Vaughan
#83. There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.
Joel Osteen
#84. A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
Criss Jami
#85. What I can tell you is I'm not running for president. I'm not going to run for president. I'm going to support one of these four people to be our nominee. I'm supporting three of them right now. And that means that we're going to get one of those people as our nominee.
Mitt Romney
#86. Pick your fights," Makin said. "I'll pick my ground," I said. "I'll pick my ground, but I'm not running. Not ever. That's been done, and we still have the war. I'm going to win it, Brother Makin, it's going to end with me." He
Mark Lawrence
#87. Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy.
Kinky Friedman
#88. Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.
Mr. Krabs
#89. The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he's not running for anything.
Bob Hope
#90. I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.
John Bolton
#91. It's not running away when you're going back home.
Paul Acampora
#92. I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
Vince Vaughn
#93. Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.
Doseone
#95. Stop!" I pinned him with a serious look. "No more. Get it out of your head, Kai! We are not running. This is happening whether you like it or not. It's time to get your game face on and get ready to kick some ass.
Wendy Higgins
#96. I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.
Andrew Cuomo
#97. I'd cry," I said, turning back to look him right in the face. "I'd be devastated. But I'm not running away anymore. No matter what happens, we can face it together. No matter what. I promise.
Priscilla West
#98. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#99. No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.
Martin Sheen
#100. I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy,
Margaret Atwood
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