Race Quotes
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.Juvenal
Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.Mark Twain
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
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.Mark Twain
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
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
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
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
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.Unknown
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.Pinda
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
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
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.James Agee
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.Cicero
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.Saint Augustine
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.Don Marquis
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 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
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?William Blake 1803
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
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.Dante Alighieri
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.From The Last Goon Show of All
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliot
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.Karl Shapiro
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.Cicero
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
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
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
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.Wendell Berry
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
