Race Quotes

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.
Bertrand Russell
Booker t. washington - no race can prosper till it learns that there is...
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR.
Golda Mei
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalie
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.
Thomason
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
Herbert Westren Turnbull
Imam ali - ibn - abi - talib, nahjul balgha (peak of eloquence), saying no. 2 - he who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses...
Sir winston churchill - if you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you...
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
Plato
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Juvenal
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.
Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.
Saint Augustine
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
Stephen Fry
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
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
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ethel Barrymore
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.
Wystan Hugh Auden
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.
John Train
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
Wendell Berry
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Samuel Johnson
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.
Mark Twain
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
Dio Lewis
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Johathan Edwards
Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.
Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1924)
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.
Victor Hugo
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?
William Blake 1803
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
Blaise Pascal
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken