Race Quotes

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Jan glidewell - you can clutch the past so tightly to your chest...
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.
Robert A. Heinlein
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Johathan Edwards
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
Henry David Thoreau
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
Adolf Hitle
Henri frdric amiel - learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with...
Tyron edwards - whoever in prayer can say, our father,...
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
Wendell Berry
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.
Cicero
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
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
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
What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.
William Gurnall
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
John Dryden
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Henry C. Rogers
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
Clarence Jordan
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
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
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.
Thomason
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
Arnold J. Toynbee
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.
Bertrand Russell
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
Unknown
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Cicero
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i. e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
Marcus Terentius Varro
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
Herbert Westren Turnbull
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.
Rollo May