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Letter "R" » running back
«He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
flies, holds, hold back, rejoices, running back, runs
«We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Forgiveness,
Living
| Keywords:
Among the Living, causes, Cause of action, come back, connect, effects, fibers, running back, sympathetic, threads
«This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.»
Author: Laura Schlessinger
| Keywords:
back away, dry, dry run, fritter, fritters, fritter away, running back, run dry, this is not a, This Is Your Life
«I'm honored that you invited me, especially when for $10,000 and a new convertible you could have had the top running-back prospect at SMU.»
«The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
adult, approaches, closed, infant, old man, running back, The old man
«I think on the seventh day, God was running around, going, ?Oh, my God! What haven?t I?? Rwanda! I better create Rwanda! Sorry, haven?t quite done that? The Tower of Pisa! Oh, it?s leaning? Oh, shi? done! Toilets in French camping sites? there we go. English football hooligans? there we go, whatever that is? Mrs. Thatcher?s heart? there we go? oh, fuck that! I know, I?ll put a stone in, that?ll work! There we go??The next week, I think, people are coming back, going, ?Rwanda doesn?t work very well; infrastructure?s fucked.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
camped, camping, coming back, English people, football, French, French people, fuck, fucked, infrastructure, leaning, lean back, Mrs, Oh My, Pisa, running back, Rwanda, seventh, Seventh day, sites, thatcher, The Tower, toilets, tower, Tower of, Tower of Pisa, very well
«All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It?s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I?ve won or lost. At sunrise, I?m out again, giving it the old try.»
«Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
| Keywords:
carried, carry back, cravings, go back, in a way, running back, run away, The Practice, worries
«It is better to run back than run the wrong way.»
«One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
about turn, back, back away, danger, double, doubles, double over, doubling, flinch, flinching, half, halves, meet, ought, out of danger, promptly, reduce, run, running back, run away, take turns, threatened, try, turn, turned on, turning away
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