Race Quotes

Katherine anne porte - defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought...
There but for the grace of God go I.
John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Ecclesiastes 911 Bible
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
H. g. wells - when i see an adult on a bicycle, i do not...
Walter lippmann - the genius of a good leader is to leave behind...
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain
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
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
From The Last Goon Show of All
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?
William Blake 1803
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
Henry David Thoreau
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.
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR.
Golda Mei
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
Wendell Berry
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.
Anne
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
George Aiken
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
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
There but for the grace of God goes God.
Sir Winston Churchill
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
Jim Grue
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
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
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri
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
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
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
Cicero
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
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
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayna
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.
Unknown
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
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 human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
Shelley