Race Quotes

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Juvenal

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Mark Twain

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

Saul Bellow

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

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

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Cicero

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

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

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

Pablo Picasso

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jim Grue

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

Herbert Westren Turnbull

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.

George Aiken

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There but for the grace of God goes God.

Sir Winston Churchill

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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

Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.

Thomason

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

Mark Twain

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

Paterculus

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

H. L. Mencken

There but for the grace of God go I.

John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins

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

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Alexander Hamilton

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo