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Flying is better than walking. Walking is better than running. Running is better than crawling. All of these, however, are better than extraction by a Med-Evac even if it is, technically, a form of flying.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war

Happiness is like a scooter; once you are up and running, you can just scoot along. It's getting up and running in the first place that's the tricky bit.

GQuote by Guy Browning about happiness, contentment

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

Quote by Lester Bangs about society, common sense, sense, people, contentment

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and...

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila about water

I'd have tears running from my eyes listening to the power of these operatic pieces, and the voices that committed themselves to being an instrument for the composers who created them.

Quote by Michael Bolton about tears, eyes, power, being

It was a little scary because a similar thing had happened with Fountain City, the failed novel, all sorts of disparate themes running together; in that book I trusted my instincts but it didn't work. I couldn't get it to hang together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about city, work, things

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Quote by Princess Diana about purpose, essential, destiny, society, help, happiness, nothing, life, people

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come...

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

Quote by Princess Diana

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up...

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

Quote by Michael East about speed

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running...

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

Quote by Michael East

If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All...

If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

Quote by Carmen Electra about contentment

Most of the time it was relatively cool, but I would get beat up sometimes when I'd walk around the neighborhood and kids didn't know me. One day I got jumped by, like, six dudes for no reason. I also got shot at, and ended up running out of my...

Quote by Eminem about reason, day, time

We have a cafe up here where we live, we had it open for...

We have a cafe up here where we live, we had it open for 3 years, and my wife was running it. But I sank so much money into it... we gave it a shot.

Quote by Joe Cocker about wife, money

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would...

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Quote by Brett Favre about season, chance, games

There's no sanitation and no running water, but the spirit of the people, their enthusiasm, their joy-the thing I carried away with me was a sense of human contact.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about enthusiasm, joy, water, common sense, sense, human imperfections, spirit, things, people

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about prison, nation, magic, end, people

When John Kennedy was running for president he came to my neighborhood. It was the hottest day in a century, it was like 9,000 degrees. People came from all over Manhattan to my neighborhood to see this guy who talked about my country, and my part...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about country, things, day, people

I'd get out there running around with animals in Africa, ...

I'd get out there running around with animals in Africa, and I'd been in the Amazon for a while, so that's how that came about.

Quote by Jim Fowler about animals

I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running...

I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about good luck, bad luck, moment

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just...

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

Quote by Quincy Jones about tragedy, old, olderness, life

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