1. run on - Noun
2. run on - Adjective
3. run on - Verb
continue uninterrupted
talk or narrate at length
(verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines
Source: WordNetrun-on
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Marcus Aurelius
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. C. S. Lewis
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. George Chapman
The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters. Paul Karl Feyerabend
Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do. The Republicans always run on the idea that government isn't very effective. Well, not the way you do it. But it can be effective. Bill Maher
It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide. Charlie Hunnam