Quotes of: Human-race Keyword

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to...

Murray Gell-Mann

Is it not He whose immortal hand... has written there the death sentence of tyrants? He did not create kings to devour the human race. He did not create priests to harness us, like vile animals, to the chariots of kings and to give to the world examp...

Maximilien de Robespierre

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else...

Patti Smith

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that im...

Brandon Sanderson

[to Altaira] Commander John J. Adams: Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy....

Forbidden Planet

But now, where the spirit of the Western nationalism prevails, the whole people is being taught from boyhood to foster hatreds and ambitions by all kinds of means—by the manufacture of half-truths and untruths in history, by persistent misrepresent...

Nationalism

Neleus... The son of Poseidon! A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman. Not plain at all! So it was, when the gods love, mate as humans with humans! From such a union two children were born, both boys. Their mother placed them in ...

Unknown

The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule of law and human rights is universal—a world free of dictators, terrorists, warmongers and fanatics, where men and women of all nationalities, races,...

Mario Vargas Llosa

I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You deeply despise the human race, at least our part of it; you think it not only fallen but incapable of ever rising again... For my ...

Alexis de Tocqueville

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

The Glass Castle

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Vivir cada día como si se lo hubiésemos arrebatado a la muerte. Así quisiera vivir siempre.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

But we also need stories. Great stories.

A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God

I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race.

Lester Holt

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

Michael Johnson

You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Maurice Greene

James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.

Kurt Busch

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Charles Darwin

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

Jeannette Rankin

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

Dale Earnhardt