Urge To Run Quotes

#1. Everyone knew the urge to run from the world; few dared do it.

Ian McEwan

#2. And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

Martha Gellhorn

#3. I grip him. "Don't leave me."
He kisses my lips, "Never again. This isn't me leaving you. This is me choosing you." He throws my words back at me.
He kisses me once more and then pushes off. He leaves and doesn't look back. I fight the urge to run after him.

Tara Brown

#4. I'm pretty sure that my Restless Leg Syndrome is simply caused my body just fighting the urge to RUN AWAY!

Tanya Masse

#5. She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey

Kayti Nika Raet

#6. The rage was a good feeling, stronger and purer than the shame that followed, the fear and the sudden urge to run and hide, to deny, to pretend I did not know who I was and what the world would do to me.

Dorothy Allison

#7. She had the simultaneous urge to run away from the approaching menace and run toward him and hold on for dear life. The problem, she realised, was that she had no idea whether he would catch her either way.

Elizabeth Hunter

#8. I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.

Kyle Gallner

#9. When you have the urge to run away, you are feeding into fearful thoughts that keep you stuck. What benefit are you gaining by escaping? Is there a payoff to procrastinating?

Scott Allan

#10. I practically left my skin in a puddle on the floor. Seriously?! A man's voice echoed in the cavern, and I had no idea where he was. I fought the urge to run screaming around the cellar like a beheaded chicken with vocal cords, then took a deep breath and winced.

April White

#11. I fought the urge to flee by reminding myself that I couldn't run away every time I felt uncomfortable, embarrassed or hurt.

Marni Bates

#12. Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

George Will

#13. I feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car
& then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tires
i'm torn between the compulsion to run
& the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass

Koren Zailckas

#14. We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [ ... ]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Eustace Mullins

#15. Time is running out for nature and wildlife around the world

Jennifer Morgan

#16. The finest fury is the most controlled.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. Luce had to fight every urge in her body not to run into his arms. He was breathtaking: a knight in shining armor to outshine any fairy-tale knight.

Lauren Kate

#18. She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.

Holly Black

#19. People who like surprises want you to like surprises, too.

Emily Giffin

#20. How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.

Marylinne Robinson

#21. I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

Sue Monk Kidd

#22. If the President asked you to help, I don't think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn't be effective.

Joseph Stiglitz

#23. If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

Andrew Weil

#24. Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#25. Real life has no understanding of proper structure," the boy said, "which is why news stories are always made of little lies.

Nick Harkaway