Race Quotes
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.Pinda
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
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
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Edmund Burke
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
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.Mackay
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
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.Karl Barth
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.George Santayna
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
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
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.Bertrand Russell
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliott
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
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.Joseph Conrad
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
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
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
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.John Ruskin
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.Mark L. Mika
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.Clarence Jordan
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
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao Tzu
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.Marcus Garvey
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
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
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
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
