Short Race Quotes

#1. Success is actually a short race - a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

Gary Keller

#2. He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. And no one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't think I'd do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.

John Kasich

#4. To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

Clarence Thomas

#5. Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing - there is never enough time.

Carroll Smith

#6. A significant portion of the human race has no idea what it is like to be attached to short legs, and I am forever finding myself indignantly pumping along like a handcar in a world of express trains.

Patricia Cornwell

#7. I like the stroke seat. I want to be there. I want to have the race come down to a short distance and be the person to make the difference. I can't stand to be behind and I don't want to lose.

Chris Ahrens

#8. The world is still new ... it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short ... our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.

Carlton Mellick III

#9. Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.

Haidji

#11. A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do.

Jim McGarrah

#12. It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Tim Wise

#14. An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

K. Eric Drexler

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

Abraham Maslow

#16. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Walter Elliot

#17. Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

Frank Shorter

#18. I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

Walter Scott

#19. After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

Robert L. Forward

#20. As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

Laurie Graham

#21. The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

Sigmund Freud

#22. Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

John Dryden

#23. In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

Horace Mann

#24. 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

Brian Keene

#25. Perseverance is is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Walter Elliott

#26. Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

Ted Rall

#27. The race is short between the cradle and the grave!

Thomas Watson

#28. When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

Samuel Rutherford

#29. When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Mark Twain

#30. 5126We are a mongrel race, our past a history of tangles, our sources obscure, our rowdy upbringing full of greedy, short-sighted empires and cruel, wasteful diasporas.

Iain M. Banks