Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valentino Rossi

I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.

Valentino Rossi

I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

Valentino Rossi

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Robinson Jeffers

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.

Vikram Seth

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

Rodger Ward

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

Virgil

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

Vivienne Westwood

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

Walter Benjamin

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

William Blake

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

William Blake

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

Samuel L. Jackson

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Salman Rushdie

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

Ryan Sheckler

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

Ryan Phillippe

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

Wesley Morris

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

W. H. Auden

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

William Cobbett

The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom...have been thrust out of all public employment...a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.

Tony Stewart

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Vartan Gregorian

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

Tyson Gay

I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.

William Golding

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Stephen Colbert

While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.

Thomas B. Macaulay

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

Tim Wise

Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.

Tim Wise

If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race, where it came from and for what reason you know that it was a trick, and it's worked brilliantly. You see, prior to the mid to late 1600s, in the colonies of what would become the United States, there was no such thing as the white race. Those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves by that term really ever before then.

Thomas Ligotti

As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.

Raymond Loewy

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'