Race Quotes

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
Jon Bentley
Paterculus - his intelligence seized on a subject, his genius...
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
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
Wendell Berry
Francois marie arouet voltaire - when we have lost everything, including hope,...
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
Stephen Fry
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
Simms
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 remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
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
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
Katherine Anne Porte
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
The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
Tom Lehre
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.
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
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock
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 Frdric Amiel
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.
Bertrand Russell
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Sir Winston Churchill
When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.
Martin Luthe
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Pinda
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Juvenal
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
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.
Robert A. Heinlein
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
Cicero
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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
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 number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i. e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
Marcus Terentius Varro
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James
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
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayna
No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people.
Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.
Cicero
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Samuel Johnson