Jack Leach quotes

It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs.
-- Jack Leach

#Boys #Race #Majority

A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.
-- Jack Leach

#Horse #Real #Should

And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!

I was taking the bad boy off the market for good.

I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.