Race Quotes

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Jim Grue

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Saint Augustine

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Samuel Johnson

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

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 object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wilfrid Sheed

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rich Cook

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

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.

Anthony Klco

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Eric Hoffe

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

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Dante Alighieri

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

From The Last Goon Show of All

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.

Ecclesiastes 911 Bible

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.

Cicero

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

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

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

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 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

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

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan Simpson