Quotes About Race Walking

#1. People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.

Don DeLillo

#2. Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.

Sharon Jaynes

#3. The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they'll finish last. You don't win the race by walking around the starting line saying 'I'm not going to win this race'.

Mitch Rowland

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

Haruki Murakami

#5. Humans will run the race of their lives just to find out they were walking in circles the entire time

A. Mani

#6. I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

Kevin O'Leary

#7. Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#8. Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#10. Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#11. One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive.

Christian Louboutin

#12. I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

Erin Hamlin

#13. To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

Juliana Hatfield

#14. Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#15. Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

Nancy Pearcey

#16. I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#17. A typical race morning usually starts out looking like a scene from a zombie movie: individuals or pairs of people walking down a deserted street, all headed in the same direction ... Inevitably, regardless of the weather, U2's "Beautiful Day" streams out of loudspeakers.

Sarah Bowen Shea

#18. White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

Margaret Cho

#19. Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Louis MacNeice

#20. Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.

Marcia Gay Harden

#21. The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

Roxane Gay

#22. There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving ...

John Updike

#23. I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.

Valerie June

#24. They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too, as the great Philip Roth put it. So if everyone in America aspires to be WASPs, then what do WASPs aspire to? Does anyone know?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#25. Walking with the projected chest
Feeling like you just won
The race has been tough
But the joy of winning is too good;

Priscilla Koranteng

#26. To a terrible place which men's ears may not hear of, nor their eyes see it.

Sophocles

#27. The road to health is paved with good intestines!

Sherry A. Rogers

#28. Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.

Charles Bukowski

#29. Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Steve Erickson