Top 1200 Rat Race Quotes & Sayings

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

My sabbatical from Bollywood was a conscious decision. I was never in the rat race.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

I am no longer interested in the rat race and I want to be around in a meaningful way.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

I don't want to be in the rat-race. I want to take things as they come.

My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?

I don't want to be in any rat race.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.

A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.

I'm not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.

In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.

Only a rat can win a rat race.

People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.

It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.

TV is the rat race of the century.

People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

I am not in a hurry to be number one. I don't want to be in the rat race in that sense.

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.

I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge."

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!

There is immense pressure of being caught in the rat race. At such times, I'm glad I have just one child.

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.