Quotes of: Races Keyword

We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known. But the American approach -- . Rotten at its core. It was too artificial and grabby, Vigil believed, too much about getting stuff and getting it now: medals, Nike deals, a cute butt. It w...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

If we increase r [in a logistic map] even more, we will eventually force the system into a period-8 limit cycle, then a period-16 cycle, and so on. The amount that we have to increase r to get another period doubling gets smaller and smaller for each...

The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that th...

The Last Hero

When God introduced man to the angels, Satan became the first racist. Satan belonged to a race of beings called angels, man to a new race of beings called humans. In Satan’s mind, angels, particularly he himself, were far greater than mankind simpl...

We Struggle Not Against Flesh & Blood: Thoughts & Reflections on Being Black in America, Vol. 1

John Keating: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and neces...

Dead Poets Society

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

Clockwork

If life is becoming a race, could it be time to slow down?"el

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.

The Cordello Quest

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Escolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion

I've always wanted to race cars, even since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

The Fast and the Furious 2

...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...

A Familiar Rain

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Brighton Belle

In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

Boy21

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

Boy21

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.

Earl Warren

I can't really speak to the other parts of the economy, but what I think is very true of the tech world is that it's easy for talented people - whatever their gender, age, or race - to rise up and succeed.

Joy Covey

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

Every law out there is to protect the safety of every individual, regardless of their age and regardless of their race. And so, if those laws are not working, then we need to work to change them.

Robert P. McCulloch

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

W. H. Auden