“She said people found running to something easier than running from something.”

Source: Ten Things We Did

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Novelist 1977

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: It's much easier... to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Source: The Book Thief

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Essentially, we distinguish ourselves from the rest. If you want to win something, run the 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.”

Emil Zátopek (1922–2000) Czech Olympic long-distance runner

Attributed in "Making a run at the Olympic dream", an unsigned article from The StarPhoenix, 9 May 2007, at canada.com (CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.) http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/sports/story.html?id=b111ee9e-182a-4cff-831a-f784cc7bb37e