J.N. Race Quotes

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

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

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

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

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.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

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

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

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

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

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

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.

What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny.

The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

I’ve been itching to kill a zombie lately. Can I take the lead on this one, dad?

A father’s only dream is to hear his daughter ask to kill some zombies. Go for it, sweetie. Make this old man proud.

What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.

You live on. You never die. You live on in the hearts of people whose life you have impacted.

If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.

To achieve what 1% of the worlds population has (Financial Freedom), you must be willing to do what only 1% dare to do..hard work and perseverance of highest order.

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.

Doing mistakes is as much a part of life as avoiding them. You may not get a second chance to do the same mistake, so, go on, give it a shot.

That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of comfort zone your biggest challenge.

An ounce of cancer prevention is worth a ton of cancer cure.

...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination.

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

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

Got an idea to start", "Thinking to start" and "Making a commitment to start" is one aspect of life.Actually "Starting" what you truly want to do in life, is a completely different ball game.

Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming a necessity for the mathematicians and computers as well.

Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end...because in the end, it shows you a whole new world !!Make an attempt..

Life Insurance is a mitigation to the risk of your lifeFinancial Freedom is a mitigation to the risk of living your life !!Choice has always been yours.

Here at great expense, ' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

No knowledge comes to you late. It comes just at the time when you are ready for it.