Things You Can't Outrun Quotes

#1. But some things you can't outrun, no matter how fast you move your legs.

Kimberly McCreight

#2. Racing down the kingsroad, as if to outrun his doubts.

George R R Martin

#3. The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.

Andrew Klavan

#4. Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

Esi Edugyan

#5. Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#6. If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Alice Hoffman

#7. It's like life, isn't it? You think you'll outrun it, that you're better than it, but it makes a fool of you every time. It runs you into the ground and steams off whistling away, happy as buggery with itself.

Richard Flanagan

#8. She was a stay-at-home mom who'd completed her job. Lost her job. A thundercloud of self-pity built in her emotional sky, but she fled from it, tried to outrun it, by lecturing herself aloud. "You haven't lost your family. They just don't live with you anymore. In lots of ways, that's a good thing.

Emily March

#9. We spend our whole lives running from our past, never realizing it's hitched to us - we can't ever outrun it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#10. You are faster than your fears. You need not outrun them when you can outfight them, conquer them, make them yours

Robert J. Crane

#11. Androma was good at what she did. But so was Dex.
Besides, a prodigy could only outrun her master for so long.

Sasha Alsberg

#12. It's not a threat. It's simply fact. He is Greek and of a bloodline
nearly as old as yours. He is required to be what he was made to be
whether he wishes it or not. He swims against the current, Ari. He thinks
he can outrun his fate. He cannot. No one can.

Victoria Escobar

#13. 'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

Jenna Blum

#14. Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on Sunset Boulevard, do they wipe their clammy palms, and wonder to themselves how it was that in such a harmless

Clive Barker

#15. To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

Kathleen Norris

#16. I love you, storm girl," I said. "I'd love to live in Mirror Lake with you. I'd love to work on the Spiral Project with you. I'd love to chase storms, outrun tornados, fix trucks, drive all over the country. Whatever you need me to do, I'll do it. As long as I'm with you.

Nina Lane

#17. Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Aesop

#18. This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won't just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.

Jenny Offill

#19. I'm just trying to outrun a broken heart, which is nothing to sneeze at, for a broken heart breaks a person.

Sarah Hina

#20. In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

George Vecsey

#21. I am not my past. I am my present. I am my future. The past can chase you if you let it.You can spend your life trying to outrun it or you can stop running, turn around and look it inthe face. i've stared down my past, and now i'm moving on.I am more than my past.I am my future and it belings to me.

Lauren Blakely

#22. It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ...

Sarah Orne Jewett

#23. We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.

T.F. Hodge

#24. A wolf cannot outrun its shadow.

Josh Lanyon

#25. Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

William Shakespeare

#26. You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.

Franny Billingsley

#27. Do not let fancy outrun your means.

Benjamin Franklin

#28. A rabbit, it has been said, can outrun a lion. But the rabbit's great fear of the lion paralyzes it, making it easy for the lion to catch and consume it.

Sheila Walsh

#29. Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou

#30. I couldn't outrun them. I couldn't outgun them. Maybe I could outsmart them.

Rick Yancey

#31. Do you always drive this way?" "What way?" "As if we're trying to outrun an earthquake.

J.D. Robb

#32. The people who need us the most are drawn to us, no matter how we try to outrun them. They find us and eventually they heal us, no matter how resistant we are.

S.E. Jakes

#33. Remember, you don't have to outrun the zombie. You just have to outrun your friends.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#34. The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

Martial