Damon Runyon Quotes

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

Damon Runyon

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Strong

• Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • May
  • Respect
  • Religious

• I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Give

• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Race
  • Autobiography

• Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Race
  • Election
  • Still

• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • High
  • Risk
  • Race

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • May
  • Society
  • Lost

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Life
  • Race
  • Brotherhood

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Age
  • Strong
  • Dance

• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Privilege

• The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • May
  • Past

• People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Bad
  • Colors

• I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Mother

• The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

  

  Jason Robert Brown

• The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • May
  • Strong
  • Victory