„Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?“
— Shirley Jackson, libro The Haunting of Hill House
Fuente: The Haunting of Hill House
„I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot“
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„I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?“
— Sherwood Anderson, libro Winesburg
Fuente: Winesburg, Ohio
„Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.“
— Henny Youngman American comedian 1906 - 1998
„I am running (for president) because I think the world is falling apart.“
— Lindsey Graham United States Senator from South Carolina 1955
As quoted in "Lindsey Graham announcing at CBS “This Morning” interview his presidential bid" https://www.yahoo.com/politics/lindsey-graham-i-am-running-because-the-world-is-119274762516.html (18 May 2015), by Dylan Stableford, "YAHOO Politics"
2010s
„It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.“
— Sinclair Lewis, libro Babbitt
Babbitt (1922), Ch. 25
„Don't look back!"
"Why not?"
"Because I just did! Run faster!“
— Terry Pratchett, libro Nación
Fuente: Nation
„I don't care about my company. … Because it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters to me is running our country.“
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)
„I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.“
— Libba Bray, La Orden de la Academia Spence
Fuente: A Great and Terrible Beauty
„No," his father replied, "you ran for you. I just hope you're running toward something, not away from something.“
— Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965
Paul Flanner's father, Chapter 3, p. 24
2000s, Nights in Rodanthe (2002)
„Writers used to say, "You don't drive in 100 runs," burt they forget I played for the worst team in baseball from 1955 to 1960. I didn't drive in runs because there was no one to drive in.“
— Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player 1934 - 1972
As quoted in "Clemente Changes Batting Title Tune" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d9weAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OVAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7121,5291429 by Phil Musick, in The Pittsburgh Press (Thursday, August 14, 1969), p. 38
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1969</big>
„The only thing I am afraid of is fear.“
— Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington British soldier and statesman 1769 - 1852
Notes for 3 November 1831.
Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886)
„If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.“
— John Wyndham, libro The Chrysalids
Fuente: The Chrysalids
„Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.“
— James Northcote English painter 1746 - 1831
Quoted by William Hazlitt in Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. http://books.google.com/books?id=PzQ1AQAAIAAJ&q="Fashion+is+gentility+running+away+from+vulgarity+and+afraid+of+being+overtaken+by+it"&pg=PA264#v=onepage (1830)
„There are worser ills to face
Than foemen in the fray;
And many a man has fought because—
He feared to run away.“
— Richard Hovey American writer 1864 - 1900
Act. iv. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)
„I am very underleveraged. I have a great company. I have a tremendous income. And the reason I say that is not in a braggadocios way. It's because it's about time that this country had somebody running it that has an idea about money.“
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
