I'm running because the day after election day, I was mad.


Ken Dryden

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I love election day, and I love to vote.
SUSAN STRAIGHT
We won't be raising taxes and asking for the full amount the next day after the election.
DEBBIE PILCHER
I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.
HEATHER WILSON
I don't want anyone saying we lost because of that shit [the two hour practice that was entirely run...
BUFF HOCHMAN
When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
DIANA GABALDON
After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mande...
PHIL DANIELS
The day after the election you have a really good idea how serious people were for their enthusiasm ...
JOHN STREET
I went ahead and pushed him on the ice. He was running really slow that day. He definitely came out ...
CAROL BARTH
The next day, he was out running and playing throughout the clinic.
CONNIE MAUTE
My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.
JOHN BRYANT
I've been dreaming of this day since I started running, to go out with the state championship.
CAMERON GRANT
Our team is working very hard and had a great summer of base building, running every day, ... Our go...
CITY HIGH
She had me running all day ... she played a smart game.
FLAVIA PENNETTA
If we don't. We'll be running laps the next day.
DYLAN BAKER
Our team is working very hard and had a great summer of base building, running every day. Our goal, ...
JAYME SKAY
I was running on Saturday, the day after he passed away, and I went by a corner where we frequently ...
MARSHALL PARKS
When you are looking at snacks throughout the day, look at what's going on. Are you going to be runn...
JENNY GARDNER
Give them credit. We'd been running all day and we weren't going to stop now. He threw out Jacob Wen...
JEFF GRAVIETT
Don't run away.
Im not running away. Im already gone.
-Lena and Ethan
KAMI GARCIA
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day ...
WALT HANDELSMAN
We are day by day. We have no water running!
RAY RIVERA
But right after we got out of surgery, we walked around Munich. The next day, I was pedaling a stati...
CHRIS LEITCH
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an...
STEVEN WRIGHT
We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to...
WOODY ALLEN
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind. A man ought to vote with the whole o...
G.K. CHESTERTON
The plight of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil man
PLATO
Poll workers put in very long hours on election day.
COREY LEWANDOWSKI
have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
LEWIS CARROLL
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first p...
PATRICIA IRELAND
Im a trackstar running thru life, chasing my dream.
50 CENT
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.
CHARLES DICKENS
He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting.
THOMAS HARDY
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day...
CHARLES DICKENS
We've seen an increase in the number of Eastpointe residents using our facility since theirs closed....
CAROL KLEIN
We're running 410 buses every day. We transport over 28,000 kids each day.
MIKE CONNORS
With 14 months till Election day, the attorney general is looking strong.
JOE CARUSO
I'm not mad if people call me the modern-day Liz Taylor,
JENNIFER LOPEZ
After that first day I questioned whether or not basketball was for me.
EMEKA OKAFOR
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
RAY KROC
I think on the seventh day, God was running around, going, “Oh, my God! What haven’t I…? Rwand...
EDDIE IZZARD
One day I was sitting in the producers' office and they were running a promo reel of (the Blanchett/...
SHEKHAR KAPUR
To this day I think we just dined and ditched. I remember running down Market Street, fleeing for my...
BART LALLY
He (Ash) works hard on distance running every day and he runs five miles before school every day.
HEATH GIBSON
In their frenzy to beat freshness into the endless loops of disaster footage that have been running ...
JACK SHAFER
I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.
DIRK BENEDICT
Every day he calls me and says, 'Man, tell me as soon as you're running again, and I'll be there,'
DAVID BERGERON
It was the perfect day for running, mid-60s and overcast. This is a very nice course and both boys a...
EMILY TUCKER
We're going to be running posts both day and night.
CLAUDE LEBAS
We're going to be running posts both day and night. We assign them to a position and that's where th...
CLAUDE LEBAS
As long as the electricity is running, it's running, so it never has to ask for a day off. It never ...
GARY BOWMAN
A lot of these guys are seniors out here and they're at practice running the scout team every day. T...
MARK SCHAEFER
Everybody in the area has been so positive and encouraging. Because we opened the day after Thanksgi...
JAMES REGAN
The 'day after' begins today, and the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians goes into a ...
ALUF BENN
You started noticing the crowds building day after day,
JENNIFER HILL
Day after day I'm missing you. Week after week I'm forgetting you. Month after month I'm moving on. ...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
I think he's showing now that he's an impact player, day after day.
GLENN MYERNICK
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
For too long we've been told about "us" and "them." Each and every election we see a new slate of ar...
BILL CLINTON
America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy -- and won't cross the...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN
I missed it by one day when I was with Florida in 1998. I got called up when the Marlins were in Col...
BRIAN DAUBACH
The day after tomorrow could be the best day ever.
PETER WENTZ
I cannot be available for the election campaign. This is not possible. Every day there is a hearing.
AYMAN NOUR
Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spe...
RON FOURNIER
On my first day of Jr. High I was in Geography class, and the teacher asked us if anybody knew the n...
JESSICA SIMPSON
Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
PETER O'TOOLE
What I noticed, from day one, was after I became friends with Judy, she drank all day. The baby was ...
CHRISTINA STEVENS
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Erik was running slow, he was pacing me. This was a great race and a great day, the weather was very...
KAREN ADAMS
The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I kn...
C. JOYBELL C.
He played awesome tonight. I was saying all day I was nervous about our focus because last night we ...
BILL BUTTERWORTH
In my world - advertising - the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hol...
JERRY DELLA FEMINA
A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
PETER CAPALDI
Ever day someone somewhere in the world is quoting me.
KEN POIROT
He'd get mad, because he knew I was about to quit, ... And he'd hit me a couple of times, and we'd g...
JUSTIN UPTON
I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day wo...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL
I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday n...
KATE LEVERING
Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election D...
MICHAEL MOORE
It was hers from the beginning. I'm not going to lie. In the first, it was hot, it was clay. I was m...
NINA ALIMPIC
Just because I was ornery that day, I said I'd get him.
BOB TATE
That’s how it is, day after day... night after night. The Moon chases her sunsets constantly, hopi...
KAYE ALLEN
I think Im going to run for President when I'm 35. Black, Women, and long locs...Lord help them. I w...
NERISSA IRVING
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
CHARLES PORTIS
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
We are continuing our campaign ... until the day when a clean election is carried out,
ALEJANDRO TOLEDO
This is their best opportunity to ask their questions of the candidates before Election Day.
JULIE MARTINEAU
I was definitely worried. I was pacing all day. I was definitely worried because you never know.
EARNEST GRAHAM
While voting was generally calm, the election day process deteriorated progressively during the coun...
ALCEE HASTINGS
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
I think the second day is the most important day of the meet. The edge goes off after the first day ...
JACK BAUERLE
I was fixated by Ken,
MICHAEL DAVIES
I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was ...
FLEUR EAST
We need to be in these situations, and that's why I made the schedule so competitive day after day.
BRIAN BOLAND
After all, tomorrow is another day.
MARGARET MITCHELL
I felt very angry. If I felt I could have pushed them overboard, I would have. They caused us nothin...
LEO LATLIP
If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.
PAUL WALKER
It was found dead Oct. 7 in Dryden, Ontario. It shows that the birds were moving north.
DAVE GROSSHUESCH
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to ...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Til our love was lov'd out in us both;
But our marr...
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Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
JOHN DRYDEN
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
JOHN DRYDEN
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
JOHN DRYDEN
Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
JOHN DRYDEN
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
JOHN DRYDEN
There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN
Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN