Race Quotes
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.Johathan Edwards
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
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
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 building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.Dio Lewis
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
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
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel Johnson
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 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
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.Cicero
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
There but for the grace of God goes God.Sir Winston Churchill
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?William Blake 1803
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
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
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.Clarence Jordan
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
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
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
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
Slow and steady wins the race.Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.Alexander Hamilton
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
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
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
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.Juvenal
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 9: 11
