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# Weekend Words: Run
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-run/
- Published: 2015-10-25T14:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:30:31.000Z
- Description: Paul Ryan says he will (for Speaker of the House); Joe Biden says he won’t (for President).
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:13 (2014, 2015, part 3)

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Noël Hallé, “The Race between Hippomenes and Atalanta” (1762-65), oil on canvas, 321 x 712 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris (Web Gallery of Art) (click to enlarge)

Paul Ryan says he will (for Speaker of the House); Joe Biden says he won’t (for President).

> The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot — and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.  
>  
> **—Hunter S. Thompson**

> Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.  
>  
> **—Alfred Whitney Griswold**

> In the long run we are all dead.  
>  
> **—John Maynard Keynes**

> All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.  
>  
> **—Ecclesiastes 1:7 (KJV)**

> She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.  
>  
> **—Dorothy Parker, on the acting skills of Katherine Hepburn**

> Psycho Killer  
> *Qu’est-ce que c’est*  
> fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better  
> Run run run run run run run away  
>  
> **—Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and David Byrne, “Psycho Killer”**

> An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.  
>  
> **—Nancy Mitford**

> Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.  
>  
> **—John Lennon**

> Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.  
>  
> **—Twyla Tharp**

> It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.  
>  
> **—Virginia Woolf**