Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Cayley

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

This is a volatile race. The end result is unknowable.

They're so ridiculously fast, ... I don't even take out my races that fast. They're tough records.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Don Marquis

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

Don Marquis

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

Claudia Rankine

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

If (Shelton) doesn't win that, then the team race ... we're in trouble. It saved our chances.

If somebody has come up with a solution that works on the race track, I have not seen it. If it was the Wind Tunnel 500, we would have won that by now.

Italo Calvino

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Italo Calvino

The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.

J. B. Priestley

Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

J. B. Smoove

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.

J. B. Smoove

I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

Greg Gutfeld

It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a cop is black, like the three arrested in Baltimore, or one dead in Mississippi, the hard left uses race as the underlying cause. It's why there are no defiant marches when policemen are killed.

Gerry Spence

We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

Gerald Brenan

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

He (You're Next) impresses me a little more every time I race him. And he has a lot more speed that he shows.

He's the all-American boy. Six-foot-three, blond-haired, blue-eyed. A race driver. What else can they want?

Todd Martin

I like to come down here and go to the race, and you can go to the festival.

I just need to get a feel. This is a totally different race with a different strategy.

They're too dangerous. I wanted him to race bikes, and he didn't want to.

Ever since the recall in the 1990s, the races have been pretty nasty.

As soon as the temperature comes up tomorrow (Monday), as soon as the wind comes up - bam, we're off to the races again.

A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile

Larry Sabato

Warner is the reason this race is essentially tied,

Alexis Herman

This can not be about a race to the bottom.

Orson Scott Card

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

We feel pretty strongly that we can be competitive here. Every race now is important for us.

Robert Kiyosaki

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.