Race Quotes
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliot
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
What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.William Gurnall
I think contraception is disgusting - People using each other for pleasure.Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro - Life Action League
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
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
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.Karl Barth
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
There but for the grace of God goes God.Sir Winston Churchill
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 good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.Karl Shapiro
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
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.Joyce Strange
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.Samuel Johnson
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.Booker T. Washington
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
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.Denis Waitley
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
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 is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.Andrew Carnegie
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.Mark Twain
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
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
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell
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
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
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
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.Virgil
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
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
