Race Quotes
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.Henry Louis Mencken
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
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.Pinda
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.Marcus Garvey
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.Cicero
There but for the grace of God goes God.Sir Winston Churchill
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.Proverbs 47 - 8
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
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.Cicero
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.Unknown
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliott
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.Robert Frost
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.George Santayna
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Wystan Hugh Auden
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.Dante Alighieri
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.Wilfrid Sheed
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.Andrew Carnegie
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.Mark Twain
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.Martin Luther King, Jr.
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.Peter Brodie
