Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was race to get to it, and we just couldn't get to it.

Valentino Rossi

It was like I had to win two races -- one in the dry, then in the wet.

It's been a while since I've won a race, ... It's about time.

That's the big news; he'll be running in the race for the first time.

Jeffrey Lurie

It's not a race for speed, it's a race for success. When you're going to be the C.E.O. of a 32-team operation, it's not speed, it's quality.

Jeffrey Lurie

It's not a race for speed, it's a race for success.

Dick Pound

It's not going to go away. There is no urgency because he is not going to be in another race but there are some explanations that are going to have be given.

Each team has won this year on the other's ice. Now it is just a race to three wins.

Paul Jones

That's what makes the race so hard. There was a headwind the first 10 trials, and if you were in them you had no chance.

Roger Staubach

That's how important this race is to me.

It's not the right way to win my first race of the year

It's the race you'd like to forget. You can't win with this cast.

James E. Faust

I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.

Janet Evanovich

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

Ernst Mach

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

Ernest Rutherford

I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies...

Ernest Renan

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Erin Gruwell

No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.

Cassandra Clare

Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.

Eva Figes

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Christopher Hitchens

It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

Mike Rounds

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

Frank Zappa

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

Fred Korematsu

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.

Fred Korematsu

No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.

Frank Herbert

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

George Henry Lewes

Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

George Henry Lewes

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

George Henry Lewes

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

Jim Brown

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

Jim Butcher

I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests. Faeries and vampires and whatnot -- those I can fathom. Even demons. Sometimes, even the Fallen. I can understand why they do what they do. But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea

Jerry Nachman

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

Jerry Moran

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.