#runner

If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#khaled #kite #runner #art

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life. ↗

— Martin Dugard

#inspirational #life #runner #inspirational

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore... ↗

— James Dashner

#humor #maze-runner #mind-control #sarcasm #sci-fi

I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#dreams

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. ↗

— Iain Banks

#back #blade #blade runner #future #i

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner. ↗

— Earl Campbell

#always #bounds #brown #films #i

The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#also #bandits #cheers #chip #course

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#count #days #deal #every #everything

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#because #forerunner #i #lyrics #me

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#just #made #middle #runners #up