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Running Quotes - Page 224

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.310, Hachette UK

I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.70

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.390

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.9, Sheba Blake Publishing

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. November 2, 2002.