Race Quotes
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
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.Dante Alighieri
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.Julian the Apostate
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 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
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.Henri Frdric Amiel
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
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
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.Mackay
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
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.Andrew Carnegie
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea".
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.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.Marcus Tullius Cicero
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.Homer, The Odyssey
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
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.Henry James
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
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.Bertrand Russell
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.Tyron Edwards
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Rich Cook
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
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
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
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
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?William Blake 1803
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
