Racing is the constant search for the weakest link. — Duane Bailey
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. — Mario Andretti
I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. — Nigel Mansell
To hell with safety. All I want to do is race. — James Hunt
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same. — Valentino Rossi
In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be — Keith Duckworth
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. — Caroll Shelby
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else. — Ayrton Senna
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone. — Eric Bana
This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. — Dan Rather
Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it. — Richard Childress
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson
Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about. — PattiSue Plumer
Don't Drag Quotes
When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow! — Yuri Gagarin
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. — Grover Norquist
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . . — Hermann Goring
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.
Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud. — Richard Branson
Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you're not alone
Cause I'm going to make this place your home — Phillip Phillips
People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead. — Temple Grandin
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating. — Jackie French
I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back. — Hayley Williams
Dragging Quotes
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. — Mark Twain
We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are. — Maimonides
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. — Oscar Wilde
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying. — Audre Lorde
Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned. — Sylvia Rivera
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy— — Anton Chekhov
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. — Dolly Parton
I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot. — Fedor Emelianenko
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it. — Anton Chekhov
Racing Quotes
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. — David Duke
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. — Thurgood Marshall
A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the Earth
And every man is free. — Langston Hughes
I believe there is only one race - the human race. — Rosa Parks
Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race. — Benito Mussolini
God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit. — LeCrae
We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race. — Dolores Huerta
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
Arms Race Quotes
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. — Robert Byrd
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. — Hermann Goring
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. — Joseph Rotblat
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. — Carl Sagan
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. — Winston Churchill
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. — John Foster Dulles
The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. — John F. Kennedy
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen. — Annie Jacobsen
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp. — Pat Sajak
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were. — Daniel Berrigan
Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing! — Don Garlits
Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent! — Don Garlits
It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me, that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game. — Harlan Ellison
If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you. — Christopher Titus
I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race. — Jason Wu
If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. — Bert Sugar
If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down. — Michael Andretti
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. — George Santayana
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. — Hunter S. Thompson
We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s. — RuPaul
Am I in the Forbes 100? Absolutely not, and I'll never be there. But for the first time I make so much money that I feel poor, like I have to cultivate and protect this fortune. But I never had more than $20 in my pocket before RuPaul's Drag Race so I feel so privileged with money, it's terrible. I bought a $300 beige t-shirt today. — Sharon Needles
As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit China and India. They're ready to go. And half of the world wants to drag us into the past. The problem is both sides have guns. I think there really is a reaction. A lot of people are saying enough is enough. — Paul Saffo
I remember reading an article about this idea of borderline personality disorder, which is reality producers try the find people who are sort of flamboyantly anti-social in these certain ways, because what happens when you put them around other people is they drag everyone down to their level. I feel like I`m watching this disgraceful race to the bottom. — Chris Hayes
I'm strapped in [the barrel] with a five-point drag-racing harness. With 50 feet to go, they tell me on the walkie-talkie to get ready for a head-first. "We love ya, man," was the last thing I heard. Then I could feel myself going over. — Steve Trotter
I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's Energize Compression Speedsuit. The speedsuit also compresses the core muscles to damp vibration, which lessens muscle fatigue, leaving me fresher for the bike and run. — Timothy O'Donnell
Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice. — RuPaul
If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish. — Julie Klausner
When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction. — Charles Galton Darwin
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along. — Megan Whalen Turner
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