Race Quotes
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
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
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.Saul Bellow
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
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
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.Tyron Edwards
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
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
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.Alan Simpson
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.William James
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 911 Bible
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 9: 11
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.Virgil
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.Homer, The Odyssey
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.Anthony Klco
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.Boris Pasternak
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
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.Karl Shapiro
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.Homer, The Odyssey
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.Karl Barth
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.Eric Hoffe
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
