Quotes About Outrunning Your Past

#1. Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#2. You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

Martial

#3. Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

Kristin Hannah

#4. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

#5. I'm the cook, Seth. I could take a stove apart and put it back together, but dishwashers aren't my thing.

Melissa Tagg

#6. We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

Sam Nunn

#7. If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

Magnus Scheving

#8. the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a doctor.

Paul Kalanithi

#9. I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

Jonathan Messinger

#10. The business should always be outrunning the processes, so chaos is right where you want to be.

Eric Schmidt

#11. We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

Tony Danza

#12. Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

Seth

#13. You make me forget how to breathe.

Kristen Proby

#14. The future is what it is," said Largeman. "Your people have been poisoned with the myths of lone men turning the tide, improbable tales of heroes outrunning explosions with their feet. Such tales are forbidden here. Events are laid forth and they cannot be turned. There are no heroes, Mr. Wong.

David Wong

#15. The novelist has brought us to that state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied tenfold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid, and of a more lasting impression than those which comes to us in sleep;

Marcel Proust

#16. Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that After midnight, all things are possible.

Hunter S. Thompson

#17. But no matter where I went, what I was running from would still be with me - Kat. She wasn't just back in the house, in that bed. She was with me now, inside me. And there was no outrunning that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races ... very handy.

Terry Pratchett

#19. I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Martin E. Marty

#20. I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

Jacqueline Bisset