Race Quotes
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
Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955
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 man who dies rich dies disgraced.Andrew Carnegie
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 human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.Jon Bentley
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.Josh Billings
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
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
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
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.
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.Robert Frost
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.Victor Hugo
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.John Train
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.Homer, The Odyssey
There but for the grace of God goes God.Sir Winston Churchill
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - Neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.Homer, The Odyssey
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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
It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - But that is the way to bet.Damon Runyon
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.Mark Twain
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
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
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.Henry G. Stott, 1907
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
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
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.Herbert Westren Turnbull
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
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
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.Wystan Hugh Auden
