Race Quotes

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

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

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

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Andrew Carnegie

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayna

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

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

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

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 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

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

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

Ulysses S. Grant

Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

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

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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 but for the grace of God goes God.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

Cicero

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

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

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.

Henery Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

Mark L. Mika

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.

Jon Bentley

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

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

H. L. Mencken

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

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

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

John Dalberg

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

Saul Bellow