300 Quotes on Race

• Understanding our inheritance doesn't only redefine where we came from; it illuminates how we define ourselves in overlapping cultures without simplifying their richness.

  Author: Ava Ricci

• War itself is the enemy of the human race.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

  Author: Emil Zatopek

• I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

  Author: William Yeats

• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

  Author: Frank Wright

• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

  Author: Frances Wright

• It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

  Author: Fred Woodworth

• And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

  Author: Frank Wolf

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

  Author: Tom Wilson

• A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

  Author: Montel Williams

• No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

  Author: Pearl White

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

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

  Author: Lee Westwood

• The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

  Author: Ida Wells

• Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

  Author: Ida Wells

• If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

  Author: Ida Wells

• The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

  Author: Ida Wells

• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  Author: H. Wells

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  Author: H. Wells

• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  Author: H. Wells

• In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.

  Author: David Wells

• We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

  Author: William Weld

• I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

  Author: Booker Washington

• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

  Author: Booker Washington

• No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

  Author: Booker Washington

• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  Author: Earl Warren

• The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

  Author: Chris Ware

• 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.

  Author: Rodger Ward

• Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.

  Author: Rodger Ward

• Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

  Author: Murray Walker

• With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.

  Author: Murray Walker

• I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

  Author: Stephen Vizinczey

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

  Author: Virgil

• The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

  Author: Giambattista Vico

• I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

  Author: Al Unser

• I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.

  Author: Al Unser

• The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

  Author: Mark Twain

• There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  Author: Ted Turner

• The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

  Author: Bess Truman

• The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

  Author: Arnold Toynbee

• The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

  Author: Arnold Toynbee

• The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  Author: Ian Thorpe

• Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

  Author: Hunter Thompson

• If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

  Author: Mary Terrell

• If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

  Author: William Taft

• We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

  Author: Thomas Sydenham

• That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

  Author: John Surtees

• The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race.

  Author: John Surtees

• As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

  Author: Cass Sunstein

• When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

  Author: Mats Sundin

• It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

  Author: William Sumner

• Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"

  Author: Josiah Strong

• The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

  Author: Tony Stewart

• The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

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

  Author: Stendhal

• The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

  Author: Stendhal

• Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

  Author: Freya Stark

• I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

  Author: Anna Spencer

• Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

  Author: Sammy Sosa

• It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

  Author: L. Smith

• The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

  Author: Ed Smith

• When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

  Author: Ed Smith

• If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

  Author: Adam Smith

• The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

  Author: William Simms

• Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

  Author: Clifford Simak

• It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

  Author: Clifford Simak

• I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

  Author: Bill Shoemaker

• It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

  Author: Cybill Sheperd

• I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

  Author: Barry Sheene

• One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

  Author: Wilfrid Sheed

• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  Author: George Shaw

• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  Author: Karl Shapiro

• Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

  Author: Robert Service

• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

  Author: Ayrton Senna

• When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

  Author: Ayrton Senna

• You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

  Author: Ayrton Senna

• People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

  Author: Amartya Sen

• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  Author: Walter Scott

• I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.

  Author: Elizabeth Schwartz

• But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

  Author: Dorothy Sayers

• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

  Author: Jean Savarin

• He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

  Author: Richard Savage

• Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  Author: George Santayana

• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

  Author: Juan Samaranch

• That's our race. That's our playoffs.

  Author: Tim Salmon

• We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

  Author: Alberto Salazar

• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  Author: Abdus Salam

• It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

  Author: Pat Sajak

• The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

  Author: George Ryan

• Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

  Author: J. Rushton

• Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

  Author: J. Rushton

• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  Author: J. Rushton

• Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

  Author: J. Rushton

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  Author: J. Rushton

• To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

  Author: J. Rushton

• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

  Author: J. Rushton

• Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

  Author: J. Rushton

• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  Author: J. Rushton

• The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

  Author: Damon Runyon

• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

  Author: Damon Runyon

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

  Author: Mike Rounds

• What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

  Author: Stuart Rothenberg

• The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

  Author: Valentino Rossi

• Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

  Author: Valentino Rossi

• I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

  Author: Valentino Rossi

• Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

  Author: Will Rogers

• 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.

  Author: Will Rogers

• If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

  Author: Bill Rodgers

• Every race is totally different.

  Author: Bill Rodgers

• We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.

  Author: George Rockwell

• It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

  Author: Terry Riley

• For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

  Author: Bob Riley

• The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

  Author: Branch Rickey

• Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

  Author: Beah Richards

• Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

  Author: Beah Richards

• But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

  Author: Donna Rice

• We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

  Author: Theodor Reik

• Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

  Author: Dan Rather

• Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

  Author: Jeanette Rankin

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  Author: A. Randolph

• What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

  Author: Bobby Rahal

• I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

  Author: Bobby Rahal

• Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

  Author: Paula Radcliffe

• A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.

  Author: Paula Radcliffe

• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

  Author: David Prowse

• So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

  Author: Alain Prost

• I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.

  Author: Alain Prost

• I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

  Author: Alain Prost

• When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

  Author: Alain Prost

• Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

  Author: Alain Prost

• 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.

  Author: Steve Prefontaine

• A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

  Author: Steve Prefontaine

• There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

  Author: Susan Powter

• Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.

  Author: Sarah Polley

• My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

  Author: Sidney Poitier

• Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

  Author: Henri Poincare

• I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

  Author: Donald Pleasence

• Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

  Author: William Petty

• Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

  Author: Frances Perkins

• I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

  Author: Thomas Peacock

• 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.

  Author: James Payn

• The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

  Author: Pope Paul II

• I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

  Author: Danica Patrick

• She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

  Author: Gilbert Parker

• It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

  Author: Robert Owen

• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

  Author: Ovid

• John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

  Author: Yoko Ono

• Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

  Author: Barney Oliver

• I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

  Author: Andre Norton

• Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

  Author: Emil Nolde

• We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

  Author: Jack Nicholson

• Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

  Author: Liam Neeson

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

  Author: James Nasmyth

• We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

  Author: John Naisbitt

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

  Author: Jerry Nachman

• If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

  Author: Margaret Murray

• It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race.

  Author: John Murray

• It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

  Author: Emily Murphy

• I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

  Author: Audie Murphy

• In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

  Author: Constance Motley

• When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

  Author: Thylias Moss

• We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

  Author: Jerry Moss

• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  Author: Samuel Morton

• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  Author: Samuel Morton

• No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

  Author: Dick Morris

• The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

  Author: Dick Morris

• 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.

  Author: Jerry Moran

• You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

  Author: Shemar Moore

• I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• I never though much about race.

  Author: Thelonious Monk

• Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

  Author: Andrea Mitchell

• At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

  Author: Gabriela Mistral

• By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

  Author: Marvin Minsky

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

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

  Author: Henry Miller

• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  Author: Edna Millay

• Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

  Author: Kelly Millar

• A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.

  Author: Tom Metzger

• Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

  Author: Michael Medved

• When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.

  Author: Audrey Meadows

• I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

  Author: Patrick McHenry

• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

  Author: Phyllis McGinley

• I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

  Author: Hattie McDaniel

• The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.

  Author: Hattie McDaniel

• If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

  Author: Julian May

• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

  Author: W. Maugham

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  Author: Abraham Maslow

• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

  Author: Don Marquis

• It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

  Author: Sterling Marlin

• I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

  Author: Sterling Marlin

• Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

  Author: Teena Marie

• We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

  Author: Rob Mariano

• Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

  Author: Nigel Mansell

• Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.

  Author: Nigel Mansell

• The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.

  Author: Nigel Mansell

• The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.

  Author: Nigel Mansell

• Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

  Author: Preston Manning

• When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.

  Author: Alicia Machado

• So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.

  Author: Charles Lyell

• It could potentially be a very competitive race.

  Author: Bill Luther

• It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

  Author: Lance Loud

• It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.

  Author: Lavrenti Lopes

• I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.

  Author: LaToya London

• I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

  Author: Jeremy London

• The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• Slow and steady wins the race.

  Author: Robert Lloyd

• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

  Author: Anne Lindbergh

• Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

  Author: Judith Light

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  Author: C. Lewis

• The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

  Author: Jack Levine

• I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

  Author: Joanna Levesque

• It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

  Author: David Letterman

• From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points.

  Author: David Leslie

• I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.

  Author: Greg LeMond

• 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.

  Author: Tom Lehrer

• My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

  Author: Chris LeDoux

• But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

  Author: Norman Lear

• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

  Author: James Larkin

• Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.

  Author: Angela Lansbury

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