Ran Quotes
1175 Ran quotes by 920 unique authors
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What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give…
— Albert Camus
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The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum
— Janet Evanovich
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It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS,…
— William Goldman
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What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.” I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to…
— Claudia Gray
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I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that…
— David Benioff
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I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator,…
— Mary Karr
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She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed…
— Charles J. Shields
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I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before…
— Ilona Andrews
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Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing.…
— Denis Johnson
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Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she…
— Unknown Author
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Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and…
— Jodi Picoult
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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
— Haruki Murakami
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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to…
— Alice Hoffman
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This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition.…
— Sarah Dessen
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I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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No, thanks," said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well...
— Philip Reeve
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But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight…
— Toni Morrison
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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I…
— Dean Koontz
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The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as…
— William Faulkner
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