Individual Road Race

Famous quotes containing the words individual, road and/or race:

    “Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.”
    —Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    “He taught me the mathematics of anatomy, but he couldn’t teach me the poetry of medicine.... I feel that MacFarland had me on the wrong road, a road that led to knowledge, but not to healing.”
    —Philip MacDonald, and Robert Wise. Fettes (Russell Wade)

    “For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)