Race Quotes
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
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
There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law - Giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ.Henry Grube
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
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.Cicero
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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
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.Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermon and sayings compilation)
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.John Dryden
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
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
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.Pinda
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 9: 11
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.George Santayna
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
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.Johathan Edwards
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.Jim Grue
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.Juvenal
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
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
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.Mark Twain
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.Unknown
And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.Native American Praye
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.William James
The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.Anthony Klco
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.H. L. Mencken
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.Samuel Johnson
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
