Quotation Explorer - 'Race'

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal. - Connor Franta
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them. - Alexander the Great
The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world. - John Paul Warren
A nation of philosophers [might have no need for the steadiness of venerable institutions], but a nation of philosophers is as little to be expected as the philosophical race of kings wished for by Plato. - Madison, James
She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. - Haile Selassie I
Life is not a Race, but we still continue the Chase and try to be an Ace. It’s time to get out of this Maze and Truly Live with Grace. - - RVM
Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others. - Lamont Renzo Bracy
To win the rat race, you have to think and behave like a cat. - Manoj Vaz
Lost race? The Prince studied Orayna, trying to see something inhuman in her. Why have I never heard of these ‘Rathiuel’? Because, Azaroth rapped his knuckles on the Prince’s skull, you do not care to read. - Leonard G. Mokos
Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race. - Edward O. Sisson
whenever a new thing is required for the world, then it is created spontaneously. This means a new thing is created within the body of a human body and the world gets the same thing.What is that new thing? It is the eternal question - who am I and what is the relation between the human race and me. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken. - Syed Ather
I've lived my life fighting to overcome but still yet the troubles I face, may never end in this endless race. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Plodding wins the race. - Aesop
Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors. - Plato
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. - Mark Twain
With medical science improving at roughly the same rate as our environmental situation worsens, the most likely scenario is that the world will become uninhabitable at the precise moment the human race becomes immortal. - Steve Toltz
In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others. - Emily Thorne
[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood. - George Packer
My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us. - Levon Helm
We're all in the human race. The question is, are you running toward your dreams or just away from your fears? - John Mark Green
When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish. - Abhijit Naskar
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history. - Susan Sontag
Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3 - Lecrae Moore
If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life. - Debasish Mridha
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce. - Mark Twain
Wherever you get near the human race, there's just layers and layers of nonsense. - Thornton Wilder
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you. - Orson Scott Card
If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
We need to accept that our skin colour, our race, beliefs, our genders does not separate us, we stand as one, one united person, let us unite! - Anon1467
Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area. - Xaviera Hollander
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H.G. Wells
Life is a race for those who want success and journey for those who want to live their dreams. - Asim Khan
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me. - Mark Twain
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. - Marcus Garvey
God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoléon Bonaparte
Life's true test of perseverance is continuing to run after learning that the finish line is only the start to a new race. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. - Bertrand Russell
I feel like people around me are betters voting on the wrong horse in the race. I am that horse, always failing to make others win. - Austin Kelly
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. - Martin Luther King Jr.
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence. - Alistair Cooke
Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god) - A.J. Beirens
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
A great library contains the diary of the human race. - George Mercer Dawson
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. - Mark Twain
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T. Washington
We do have some capacity to determine how things evolve, and how we evolve, individually and as a community or race. That’s a tremendous freedom and a tremendous responsibility. - Darrell Calkins
Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength. - Jeffrey R. Holland
Just because the race is worth it, doesn't mean it's easy. - Melissa Bradley
Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite. - Alcurtis Turner
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. - John Calvin
It is never wise to run any race but your own. - Tim Fargo
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. - Charles Bradlaugh
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis
Do you ever feel like we are the universe’s date to a pig party? Love, The Human Race - Christy Leigh Stewart
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt. - Charles Bukowski
What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation? - Jonah Goldberg
If the race isn't over after you have won, then it wasn't your game! - Vishwanath S J
If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. - Marcus Garvey
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. - Dante Alighieri
Life is not a race but a pace we need to maintain with reality. - Amit Abraham
Yesterday's shortcuts are today's nightmares. The race is quicker when we're stricter. Keep your eyes on today, and declare what you may. - Mark Donnelly
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. - Mark Twain
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. - H. G. Wells
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood. - H. L. Mencken
stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. Abdus Salam - Alfred Nobel
Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living. - Annie F. Downs
S'il n y a pas de rapport sexuel c'est que l'Autre est d'une autre race. - Jacques Lacan
There really is, for humankind there’s really no such thing as race. There’s different tribes but not different races. We’re all one species. - Bill Nye The Science Guy
The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. - Tim Wise
Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind, nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up. - Tamara L. Chilver
I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"! - Walter Alexander Raleigh
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe. - Elie Wiesel
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. - Joseph Conrad
God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'--that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world. - Timothy J. Keller
Running away from someone you love is a race you will never win. - Matshona Dhliwayo
O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast") - W.B. Yeats
If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. - Fred Allen
I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. - Gloria Steinem
There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest. - Robert W. Service
.....My race is Photofinish. - Farooq A. Shiekh
Being In love with Vampires is never out of fashion" (The Angel Vampire: A New Race is Born) - Vianka Van Bokkem
Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. - Orson Scott Card
Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it’s the foundation of the human experienceWe all ultimately want a pain free existence, unfortunately circumstances of unrest bring to light the spiritual laws designed to play themselves out in the everyday experiences of the human race. - Brian Edward Arsenault
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. - Thomas Love Peacock
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. - Mark Twain
My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought. - H. L. Mencken
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. - Alfred North Whitehead
Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity. - Mohith Agadi
The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.
To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it’s less about joining a race and more about actually creating one. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can't wait for the race to start to get ready. That's a loss. You must get your mind right before you get to the starting line. Mindset is everything! - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. - Winston S. Churchill
Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all. - Rebecca West
It’s illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections. - DaShanne Stokes
If you want to win the race be prepared to get off the starting blocks! - Joy Maitland
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race. - Henry G. Stott
When God calls you to build 100 castles on earth and you built 98, take the 99th as if it's the begining of your work and work hard to finish the race with all excellence. Go the extra mile! - Israelmore Ayivor
Run the race of life with your sacred strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014 - Jenna Cornell
You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come! - Kemi Sogunle
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation. - John Dalberg
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race. - Cicero
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it. - Steve Prefontaine
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time? - Walter Scott
Life is not a race.....not a struggle,& bla bla ....We make it a race , struggle.It's we to decide how should it be. Actually Life is Present & the choices we choose in past. - Vaibhav Garg
I realized what my grandmother told me about life,when i was 7years,my son,never use someone success as your race. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun
Human race should have a common goal and that is to establish infinite peace in this world which we call home. - Debasish Mridha
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called the common good. - Ayn Rand
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself. - Baz Luhrmann
That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you and it’s not unique to the West either. - M.B. Dallocchio
HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets. - Ambrose Bierce
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. - Randy K. Milholland
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. - W. Somerset Maugham
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other. - Clarence Darrow
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially. - E.B. White
Life is like a race, whenever I found a finish line, I lose, bcoz I'm last.. :( - Rahul R Singh
The 2016 USA presidential election race clarified how an evil Nazi dictator like Adolf Hitler was able to come to power in global politics. - Steven Magee
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Unknown
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook
is dedicated to serves the unfortunate, regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God's unconditional love for all people, helping communities worldwide.Ethical junction making choices easy. - Paul Chehade
A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows, the same anxieties. All mothers think first of their child and of children. - Werenfried Von Straaten
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race - Henry Miller
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense. - Thornton Wilder
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce. - Mark Twain
No matter whether you’re a gay or a mixed race couple; when you’re drawn together, ultimately it doesn’t matter what everybody thinks because it’s so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong? - Tegan Quin
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. - George Bernard Shaw
What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds it. - Jean Baudrillard
Slow and steady wins the race. - Aesop
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. - Mark Twain
You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different. - George Orwell
Life is marathon, not a sprint. It is a race we are all guaranteed to finish, so run wisely. - James North
The beauty of the human race is not in its victory over evil, but the attempt. - Sarah Brownlee
I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation. - Henry Johnson Jr
Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race. - Ketan Waghmare
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. - Benjamin Disraeli
Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. - Louis L'Amour
A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests. - Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein
I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form. - Erin Fall Haskell
What makes someone irresistible,is not their looks, but the way they can make your mind tickle,your heart race and your soul smile, all at once. - Wordions
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression. - A dangerous Method, 2011 (Movie)
[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed. - Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. - Tim Wise
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain
The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
We are equal, we re all Humans, we are all related in some way. It doesn't matter what colour our skins is, our race, beliefs, gender, age, we are all equal. I say now is the right time to unite, if we do not unite soon something bads gonna happen - Anon1467
None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race. - Jason Versey
I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.
If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African. - Abhijit Naskar
You can't win the race without God's grace - Ojo Michael E.
I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success. - Hyman G. Rickover
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 and the Curies... Ernest Rutherford - Becquerel
I am light. I am not my age, I am not my race; my soul inside is all light. I am light. - India Arie
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. - Homer
Winning, being smart is not all that required, but the fulfillment of Christian race brings peace , love and joy to the mind and soul. - Jerry Sarkwah
A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race. - Dee Dee M. Scott
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. - Cicero
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. - Oprah Winfrey
If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area. - Toba Beta
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life. - Harold Urey
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken
I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. - Shannon L. Alder
Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience. - Ralph Ellison
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. - William Blake
Sports has no bounds, no race, no religion, no caste and no creed. Keep out all this from sports. Sports are pure joy, do not ruin with your ignorance - Sammy Toora
Love has no age, race, wealth, ethnic bakground, gender, or appearence. Love is love and that's the way it's supposed to be. - TheKatAttack
Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line. - Prerna Kumar
Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much. - Paul Krugman
I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything. - Molly Ivins
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.
It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."
When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can." - Richard Petty
Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege. - Patsie Smith
The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. - Gene Wolfe
...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey - V.S. Naipaul
Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I’m a member of the human race. - Amelia Boynton Robinson
PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. - Ambrose Bierce
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race. - Hugh Elliott
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race. - Ambrose Bierce
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. - Richard Feynman
In the very existence of this book we have a most concrete example of the manner in which at least one of these marvellous creatures [cats], acquiring both an editor and a publisher, has advanced the eventual complete feline take-over of the human race. - Paul Gallico
We, the human race, are so accustomed to having instead of being. What wastage of the revelations and magic in every moment. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We hate each other by race, color, tribe, wealth, gender etc because everyone wants to feel special and different than the other. I do not however have a solution on how people can stop having an ego that makes them specially superior than the other. - Robert Kodingo
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within. - H.P. Lovecraft
It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck. - Mark Slouka
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. - Carl Sagan
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. - Samuel Johnson
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. - Bible
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. - Anonymous
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. - Andrew Carnegie
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. - François Fénelon
We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill. - Marc Goodman
Time is running faster than watch.Life is running faster than Time.We are running faster than Life.In this race, relationships are being left behind - Pankaj Gupta
Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group. - Jared Taylor
Far more than the shield is the Pleasure I get on the field . . . the Joy of the chase is greater than the result of the race. - RVM
To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All - Martin Suarez
As I travel around the country, I'm finding a common denominator - people are hurting and going through regardless of race and creed. The common denominators are people HURTING people. The cure also has a common denominator - people start HELPING people. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race-- The human race. - Edith Hahn Beer
The higher our consciousness the less we are affected by our environment, including race consciousness. - Thomas Vazhakunnathu
Love Has No Color.... No Race.... Love Is Pure And Divine But Only A Little of Us Are Able To Preserve It's Purity.... Sadly, In This Digital World, Purity Is Rare To Find In Human.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. - George Bernard Shaw
Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. - Seth Godin
I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia. - C.S. Lewis
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them - Elie Wiesel
I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s repulsive, because one’s life consists of people, not things. - Morrissey
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - H. L. Mencken
The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively. - Raheel Farooq
No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human. - Sixeye
Respect is a matter of one's faith in another. It doesn't understand which gender, class, caste or race one belongs. Respect earned, within. - Premchand Shetty
Life is a maze. Don't just gaze. Change your pace, to win the race. - RVM
It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about. - John Baddeley
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. - Dan Quayle
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. - Tom Lehrer
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings. - Dave Barry
Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference. - Nelson Mandela
It's hard to catch up when you are running second in a race with time. - Avinash Rao
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. - Unknown
Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them. - H.P. Lovecraft
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race. - Alan Ayckbourn
The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you. - Kurt Vonnegut
The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized. - Baha'i International Community
Justice is mean't for everyone no matter the race no matter the background it should be equal for everyone. - Mike "The Sweet One" Desert
DEAD, adj. Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the mad race run Though to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole! Squatol Johnes - Ambrose Bierce
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. - Will Rogers
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. - Timothy Leary
There's no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things. - Stuart Hill
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations. - Ace Frehley
Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others. - Sanchita Pandey
If you want to win a race tell your one leg other leg is your competitor, but than make sure, you don't fall, because competitor don't help each other or you can always simply tell them they are friends and can enjoy the race - Iraniya Naynesh
A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.
Time is running faster than watch.Life is running faster than Time.We are running faster than Life.In this race, relations are being left behind - Pankaj Gupta
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? - Thomas Sowell
But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first. - Ondrelique C. Ouellette
Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race. - Richard Baxter
He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land. - William Faulkner
When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. - H. L. Mencken
No man runs the race until he sees the dream. - Fred C. White
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. - Albert A. Bartlett
Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up. - Tamara L. Chilver
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. - R.D. Laing
Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face . - RVM
Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face. -RVM - R.v.m.
The human race should learn from dogs about the enormous power of love. - Debasish Mridha
Run the race of life set for you with all your very best. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?
Let us all choose to become citizens of humanity rather than citizens of hate; perhaps collectively we can achieve the salvation of the human race from its own evil…. - Husam Wafaei
Run the race of life with all endurance. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. And if nothing else, we all have the weather in common. - Randy Pausch
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