Runs

Famous quotes containing the word runs:

“The second [of Zeno’s arguments about motion] is the one called “Achilles.” This is to the effect that the slowest as it runs will never be caught by the quickest. For the pursuer must first reach the point from which the pursued departed, so that the slower must always be some distance in front.”
—Zeno Of Elea (c. 490–430 B.C.)

“Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Man ... always remains attached to the past: however far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)