Race Quotes
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.
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
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
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
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
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
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
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.H. L. Mencken
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.John Ruskin
There but for the grace of God goes God.Sir Winston Churchill
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.Homer, The Odyssey
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.Herbert Westren Turnbull
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.Victor Hugo
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
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
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliott
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
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.Henery Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
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
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)
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.Mark Twain
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.Unknown
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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
Slow and steady wins the race.Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise
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
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
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
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
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.Peter Brodie
