Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory...

George Bernard Shaw

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.

George Bernard Shaw

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

Chris Wooding

We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.

Chris Ware

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

Chris Hoy

The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then you know when you're lining up to start the race you have them there with you, willing you on. And I'm not only referring to the coaches, mechanics, physios, administrators, but also family and friends.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

George W. Bush

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.

George W. Bush

Values matters well in a race.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.

George Orwell

All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

Garth Stein

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

Garth Stein

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

Garth Stein

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

Gail Devers

In my race, theres 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and its what you do, you know.

Fernando Alonso

The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.

Fernando Alonso

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

Fernando Alonso

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

Ferdinand Porsche

Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then at the end, we have fulfilled our potential and performed well.

Fernando Pessoa

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.

Fanny Burney

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Francis Bacon

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.

Tom Danielson

I've done the race in 2003 and 2005 and there was a big difference.

Florence King

In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

Helen Keller

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ...

Helen Keller

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.

Cassandra Clare

Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

Jean Todt

A new team will race in the New Year.

Roger Penske

As far as me personally, I guess I'm going to come to the races for as long as I can.

Race is a social construct, not a scientific classification.

Elliott Sadler

Now I know why they don't put speedometers in our race cars. It is very fast.