Quotes of: Tribe Keyword

[When the two Gypsy girls are brought out to fight, Vavra addresses the tribe in the Romani Gypsy language] Kerim Bey: [translating] The women will fight until one of them is dead or surrenders. The winner will marry the man they both love, the loser...

From Russia with Love

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

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

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

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

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

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

I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way ...

Kathryn Lasky

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

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

I want to be humbled. I want to meet people more messed up than I am. I want to get lost and come out the other end having no idea who I am.

The Tribe of Ishmael

If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can ch...

Stefan Molyneux

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

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

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

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

I blew a strand of black hair from my face. “A demon treating another with kindness is something I have yet to see.” “Careful,” the demon whispered. “You may have already seen the rough shape and form it takes in this world, and yet you do ...

The Tribe of Ishmael

During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes acro...

Stephen Kinzer

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

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

We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

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

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Libya is divided into tribes and clans.

Vladimir Putin

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of a...

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

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

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

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

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

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

One of the tragedies of current Christianity in America is that we have so few compelling illustrations of this life that Jesus lived and the type of radical community he came to create. Leading pastors and preachers are little more than family-frien...

The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire