Race Quotes
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
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
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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
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
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.Juvenal
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
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
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
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 race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 911 Bible
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.Unknown
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.Unknown
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
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
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea".
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
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
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.Alexander Hamilton
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.Don Marquis
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.Kahlil Gibran
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
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.Jon Bentley
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
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
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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)
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
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.Donald O. Rickte
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
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 9: 11
Plodding wins the race.Aesop
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.Henry Louis Mencken
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao Tzu
