Race Quotes
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
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.Thomas Love Peacock
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
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.Denis Waitley
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliot
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 most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.Adolf Hitle
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.From The Last Goon Show of All
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)
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.Virgil
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
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
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
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.Johathan Edwards
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
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
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
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.Don Marquis
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
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford
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
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.Joyce Strange
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Plodding wins the race.Aesop
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
