Race Quotes

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

Jan Glidewell

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

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

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

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

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)

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

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963

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

Paterculus

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Cicero

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Henry C. Rogers

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.

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

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

Immanuel Kant

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

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

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, "Barrayar", 1991

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

Jim Grue

Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

From The Last Goon Show of All

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

Victor Hugo

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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

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

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

Herbert Westren Turnbull

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League

Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Tyron Edwards

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

Mary Catherine Bateson