Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Redgrave

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

Steve Harvey

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

Tony Campolo

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

Tom Wilson

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

Stephen Hawking

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.

Stephen Hawking

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

Stephen Hawking

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Stephen Hawking

It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals [with the help of genetic engineering]. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.

Stephan James

What I've learned about that word is context, where the world is coming from - in the era the film is set, it obviously is used derogatorily. In 'Selma,' it was the same sort of thing. Of course now, in music, it's used in many more ways, including ways that takes the sting out of it. It all depends on where and when it is used, and how you look at it. But again in 'Race,' it is intensely disrespectful.

Stendhal

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Spike Milligan

In the human race today, you came last.

Sigmund Freud

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

Sigmund Freud

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Shirley MacLaine

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

Steven Pressfield

It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

Sun Tzu

If the enemy opens the door, you must race in.

Strom Thurmond

An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at the counters, desk or benches they will be forced to work, side by side, with all types of people of all races; that in the lunchrooms, rest rooms, recreation rooms, they will be compelled by law to mingle with persons and races which all their lives they have by free choice, avoided in social and business intercourse.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?

T. D. Jakes

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

T. S. Eliot

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

Taylor Branch

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

Taylor Branch

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.

Kofi Annan

It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Kofi Annan

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

Kevin Harvick

As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

Kevin Harvick

Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.

Kevin J. Anderson

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

Kenneth Branagh

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

Keith Ellison

I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker.

Rainbow Rowell

As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.