Run Up Quotes

#1. Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care.

Nora Roberts

#2. Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. Up home we loved a good storm coming, we'd fly outdoors and run up and down to meet it," her mother used to say. "We children would run as fast as we could go along the top of that mountain when the wind was blowing, holding our arms right open. The wilder it blew the better we liked it.

Eudora Welty

#4. I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

Ken Auletta

#5. For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.

Ashton Shepherd

#6. I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

Roseanne Barr

#7. If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

Caitlin Moran

#8. Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Gautama Buddha

#9. As I watched my brothers run up to the roof to launch their kites, I wondered how free I could ever really be.

Malala Yousafzai

#10. The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.

Gautama Buddha

#12. It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf

#13. Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

Muriel Spark

#14. Josh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.

Bridget Carpenter

#15. I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given $60 million to make a film, you'd better know who your target audience is. That's who's going to pay back the bills you run up.

Michael Bay

#16. I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected.

Gracie Allen

#17. There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.

Eve Babitz

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Yes, there will be rough times with your SoulMate, especially when you run up against your remaining ego barriers or trigger them in each other.

Annette Vaillancourt

#19. The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

Gary Numan

#21. I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and a conservative president, and we've run up one of the most astounding deficits in the history of our nation.

Sam Nunn

#22. It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

Richard Neal

#23. Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.

Natalie Portman

#24. It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels.

Cameron Diaz

#25. I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.

Theodore Roosevelt

#26. Sherlock: You're exaggerating. It didn't happen that often. (in relation to Irene Adler's texts) John: 57 times in the run up to Christmas. Your pocket was moaning more than Mrs Hudson. Sherlock: Thank you for that mental image.

Guy Adams

#27. Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

Anton Du Beke

#28. When I had my confirmation hearing for the Court of Appeals, [my son] Philip was 3 years old. And when I was called up to the chair he took it upon himself to run up and sit next to me in case any hard questions came up.

Samuel Alito

#29. I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

Callan McAuliffe

#30. King Gaius began to laugh. It was a dark sound edged in danger and it made a chill run up Magnus's back as it echoed through the cavernous hall.

Morgan Rhodes

#31. I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.

Julianne Hough

#32. Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Horace

#33. It is as though we have run up a credit-card bill and, having pledged to charge no more, remain befuddled that the balance does not disappear. The effects of that balance, interest accruing daily, are all around us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#34. I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles is just adorable.

Geraldine Page

#35. I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

Adrian Peterson

#36. Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.

H. C. Moolenburgh

#37. When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.

Christina Aguilera

#38. Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

Jerry Reed

#39. When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

Willie Geist

#40. Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

William J. Clinton

#41. Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

Pippa Middleton

#42. Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

Anton Chekhov

#43. Look at the swell. You'll not find a bigger swell anywhere. It has half the globe for its run-up. You're young. You have the whole world. Don't bother yourself with the past.

Carsten Jensen

#44. When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

Frank Shorter

#45. Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Robert Stone

#46. In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

Dee Dee Myers

#47. But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.

Jennifer Donnelly

#48. There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.

Thom Yorke

#49. I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#50. Landowner of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine - Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story stone houses with red-tile roofs. For centuries, the paesani of Roseto

Malcolm Gladwell

#51. run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story

Malcolm Gladwell

#52. If I see someone I'm in awe of I'm like, 'Oh my God. Oh. My. God.' But on the outside I'm very calm. I'd never run up and hassle anyone.

Nikki Sanderson

#53. I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

Eric Dickerson

#54. Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I'm a character. I understand their point of view, but it's difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I'm so nervous.

Brie Larson

#55. If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

Richard Preston

#56. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.'
'Sounds like a boring life.'
'I hope it lasts forever.

Don DeLillo

#57. Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you.

Maya Angelou

#58. The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Boris Johnson

#59. A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.

David Maister

#60. When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny.

Louis Tomlinson

#61. I like to give myself a nice run up to a shirtless scene. Physically, it really doesn't make any difference. It's about mentally feeling good about it.

Stephen Amell

#62. Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win.

Benita Johnson

#63. Yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

Charles Bukowski

#64. Gulls shriek plovers and sandpipers run up and down the beach. The tide is all the way out. The stone jetty from which people fish in the summer is covered with seals basking in the light.

Kathleen Valentine

#65. They all watched Devin run up to meet the other girls. For a moment Kate felt indescribably sad, because she couldn't go with Devin back to her childhood. She could only stand here as an adult as the distance became greater and greater until, finally, there was an ocean between them.

Sarah Addison Allen

#66. It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

Flea

#67. I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.

Joanna Lumley

#68. The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

Gary Locke

#69. It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#70. Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

Aaron Patzer

#71. He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

Paul Keating

#72. It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

Charlotte Whitton

#73. Every now and then you run up on one of those days when everything's in vain ... a stone bummer from start to finish; and if you know what's good for you, on days like these you sort of hunker down in a safe corner and watch.

Hunter S. Thompson

#74. I was on a down escalator now. If I stood still I'd go all the way to the bottom, but if I started to run up maybe I could at least stay in the same place. The important thing was to keep moving upward no matter what happened.

Daniel Keyes

#75. My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish the idea lets go and runs off.

Ray Bradbury

#76. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favourable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted,

C.S. Lewis

#77. Austrailia, Sydney Might run up in Disney Out in LA with Lindsay

Nicki Minaj

#78. I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

Billy Bob Thornton

#79. As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

Susana Martinez

#80. My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

Georg Brandes

#81. It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

Valerie Simpson

#82. It's not like I'm going to run up and hug him."
His expression turned bland. "I'd sure hope not. I might get jealous."
"You'd get jealous if she hugged a tree," Archer tossed out.
"Maybe." Daemon coasted to a stop in a parking space behind the car. "I'm needy like that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#83. With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.

Timothy Hutton

#84. No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

William Henry Drummond

#85. The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

Cornel West

#86. If we're talking about brain performance, the best predictor of brain speed is aerobic capacity - how well you can run up a hill is very strongly correlated with brain speed and cognitive shifting ability,

Hal Elrod

#87. Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.

David Thwaites

#88. I want you to tell me how this normally works. Do we hunt down the Dark Ones? Do we have a scheduled battle with the Big Bad Dark One? Do I need to run up and hit him in the face with a glove and declare a duel? What?

Nichole Chase

#89. I love sleeping in my son's silly racecar bed. I love watching hours of 'Yo Gabba Gabba.' I love long playdates with his best friend Jack and traveling with Zev. Most of all I love coming home from work and seeing Zev run up to me saying, 'My mommy's home! My mommy's home!'

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#90. When I was a kid, my favourite time of the year when I was child was that magical first snowfall. I'd yell Yippee! Snow! and run up to the front door and shout You know the deal ... You have to let me in now.

Emo Philips

#91. And the game of basketball, I play, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Kevin Durant

#92. Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.

Melina Marchetta

#93. My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.

Christine Pelosi

#94. Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall

Paolo Nutini

#95. No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do.

Dick Cheney

#96. My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.

Rodney Atkins

#97. As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

Ja Rule

#98. The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

Michael O'Leary

#99. Every little boy wanna pick up the mic,
And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype.
But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike,
Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.

LL Cool J

#100. I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

Rachel Boston