Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Liddell

And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Eric Liu

A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.

Eric Heiden

You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.

John F. Kerry

The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.

John F. Kerry

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

John Michael Hayes

Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

John Denver

The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.

John Calvin

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

John Calvin

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.

JJ Feild

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

George A. Sheehan

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

Lynn Barber

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

Loretta Sanchez

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

Mahathir Mohamad

The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

Mahatma Gandhi

In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

Mahatma Gandhi

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

Gabrielle Union

Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

Maggie Stiefvater

There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day. You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.

Madame de Stael

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

Haruki Murakami

Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

Jimmy Carter

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

John C. Calhoun

I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good. . . . I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

James Payn

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

James P. Hoffa

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.

James Nasmyth

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

James Mercer

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

James Mark Baldwin

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

Emerson Fittipaldi

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

Ellsworth Huntington

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.