"Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one."

--

George A. Sheehan

#Race Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Put it back in the horse!”
“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”

Source : Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”
“Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.”
“For me, I've gotten away from feeling I'm too dark. we're all women of color, and a lot of us are doing some great things. I think it's important the great things that we all do instead of asking, 'Why didn't I get this?' or 'Why did the light-skinned girl get that?' instead of focusing on the positive. That what I and some girlfriends of mine are doing, celebrating all colors and all ethnicities of women of color. That's a better way to go, rather than bringing all the negativities into it. It so much easier to smile and have fun than it is to hold grudges.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.”

Source : 'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7
“Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.”

Source : Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster
“I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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