Race Quotes
The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.Anthony Klco
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliot
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
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
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
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
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
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
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.From The Last Goon Show of All
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.Victor Hugo
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
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
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
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.Don Marquis
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.Thomason
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Cicero
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.Shelley
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.William James
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
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.Katherine Anne Porte
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel Johnson
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
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.Mark L. Mika
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
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
