Race Quotes

Lucius annaeus seneca - we should give as we would receive, cheerfully,...
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Oprah winfrey, o magazine, april 2003 - if you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies....
H. l. mencken - any man who afflicts the human race with ideas...
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
Alexander Hamilton
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
There but for the grace of God go I.
John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
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
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Unknown
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.
Donald O. Rickte
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.
Anne
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Tyron Edwards
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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
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
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Henry James
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
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings
Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
Katherine Anne Porte
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
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.
Thomason
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
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
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
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
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
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
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
Clarence Jordan
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
Kahlil Gibran
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
Grace under Pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
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 true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayna