Race Quotes
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.Mark L. Mika
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 genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
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
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.Homer, The Odyssey
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
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.Unknown
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.Boris Pasternak
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.Rollo May
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.Johathan Edwards
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
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
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
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.Jim Grue
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
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
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
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
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.Jon Bentley
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.Homer, The Odyssey
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
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.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.Josh Billings
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
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
