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running unkind word year
Roger's been running for a year and a half. And there hasn't been an unkind word said. Jim Williams
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running risk foxes
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
running risk littles
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
running flower fall
I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky. Bede Griffiths
running figures keep-running
If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on. Becca Fitzpatrick
running patches
The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.
running believe world
I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.
running long mind
After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
years trying records
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live. Beck
years records always-working
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
years holocaust bells
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
years lasts songwriting
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
years important next-year
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure. Barry Ritholtz
years giving sublime
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. Barry Lopez
years lakes people
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people! Babatunde Osotimehin
years house tunisia
I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings. Azzedine Alaia
years people realizing
It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music. B. B. King
longer matter relief weeks
Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that.
longer message misery payoff remain suffering terms
Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.
longer people seem shocked
People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry, David Friedman
longer looking planets prior stars start terms
Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.
longer mean monitor
Some of the things you monitor no longer mean the same thing.
long periods long-periods-of-time
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
long chance i-loved-you
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.
long political quality
'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'
long people trying
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.