Race Quotes
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.Proverbs 47 - 8
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003
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
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
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
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.Josh Billings
Slow and steady wins the race.Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.Jim Grue
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
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.George Santayna
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.Saul Bellow
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
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
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.Mackay
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
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.Marcus Garvey
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
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
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
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
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
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
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 911 Bible
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.Henry G. Stott, 1907
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
