Race Quotes

Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.

Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

Shelley

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Simms

Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?

William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

Henry James

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

Mackay

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Jim Grue

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.

Dame Rebecca West

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.

Julian the Apostate

It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - But that is the way to bet.

Damon Runyon

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Strange

There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law - Giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ.

Henry Grube

Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

Paterculus

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Tyron Edwards

There but for the grace of God goes God.

Sir Winston Churchill

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Richard Burton

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people.

Eric J. Joiner, Jr.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao Tzu