Quotes and Sayings about Race
"There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break."
- Willie Aames
(Related: God, Heart, Grace)
"The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Government, Congress, Judgment)
"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Baby, Responsibility)
"Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Home, Night, Washington)
"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Age, Education, Argument, Children, Democracy, First, School)
"Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Time, Children, Disease, End, Labor, Poverty, Treatment, Will)
"I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, Islam, Muslim, Americans, Being, Burden, Challenge, Race)
"I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Progress, Race)
"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."
- Lucius Accius
(Related: Death, Life, Disgrace, Man)
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Science, Power, Day, Existence, Mankind, May, Race, Suicide, World)
"Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary."
- Will Adams
(Related: Art, Being, Geometry, Grace, Mathematics, Now, Reason, Understanding)
"I don't do the same show on any two nights."
- Trace Adkins
"It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with."
- Trace Adkins
(Related: Now, Songs)
"People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records."
- Trace Adkins
(Related: Experience, People, Song)
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Thought, Emotion, Nothing)
"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Deeds, Evil, Man, Profit, Shame, Will, Word)
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Wisdom, God, Heart, Despair, Forget, Grace, Pain, Sleep, Will)
"There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Disgrace, Enemy, Hate, Suffering)
"Plodding wins the race."
- Aesop
(Related: Race)
"Slow but steady wins the race."
- Aesop
(Related: Race)
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon."
- George Aiken
(Related: Causes, Prejudice, Race)
"I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars."
- Anna Akhmatova
(Related: Memory, Monument)
"We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age."
- Peter Akinola
(Related: Age, Church, American, Grief, Now, Spirit, Zeal)
"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Family, Society, Children, Paradise)
"I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Positive, Disappointment, Race)
"I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Race)
"No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Greatness, Grace, Sin)
"Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Race)
"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Sky)
"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."
- Vittorio Alfieri
(Related: Crime, Disgrace, Punishment)
"Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Family, Children, Income, Race)
"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
- Charles M. Allen
(Related: Technology, Hell, Help, Race)
"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Race)
"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'"
- Woody Allen
(Related: Sleep, Want)
"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Class, Gender, Race, Sexuality)
"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Disgrace, states, United)
"Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul."
- William Ames
(Related: God, Soul, Body, First, Grace, Man, Obedience, Will)
"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Grace)
"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Women, Pretty)
"If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: People, Insects, Race)
"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: God, Grace)
"As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander."
- John Andre
(Related: Death, Life, Country, Disgrace)
"Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is."
- Michael Andretti
(Related: Race)
"Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race."
- Michael Andretti
(Related: Race, Running)
"It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one."
- Prince Andrew
(Related: People, Connection, Race, Responsibility, Understanding, United)
"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Ignorance)
"I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: Choice, Choices)
"In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Religion, Life, Awareness, Dignity, Mission, Nations, Race, United, Will)
"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: God, Grace, Hell, May, Punishment, Saints)
"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
- Aristotle
(Related: Life, Accidents, Circumstances, Dignity, Grace, Man)
"Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result."
- Tommy Armour
(Related: Golf, Result)
"Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Death, Religion, Success, Christianity, Islam, Dying, Man)
"For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: Grace, Righteousness, Salvation)
"The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities."
- Timothy Garton Ash
(Related: Survival, Key, Liberty, World)
"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
- Paddy Ashdown
(Related: Politics, Grace, State)
"My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Identity, Potential, Race)
"It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die."
- Margot Asquith
(Related: People, American, Race)
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Christ, Gifts, Grace, Overcoming, Self)
"We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be."
- John Astin
(Related: Change, Greatness, Earth, Humanity, Race, Running, Will)
"The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race."
- Francis William Aston
(Related: History, Science, Fact, Future, Importance, Possibilities, Race, Remarkable)
"I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Beer, Grace)
"Love is the victim's response to the rapist."
- Ti-Grace Atkinson
(Related: Love)
"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: People, Hope, Race, Will)
"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Happiness, Life, Being, Choices, Freedom, Humanity, Joy, Mistakes, Negativity, Pain, Today)
"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."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Age, Society, Money, Class, Race, Rank)
"May it not be that, just as we have to 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?"
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Faith, History, God, May, Race)
"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Grace, Will)
"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Music, Prayer)
"The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race."
- Sri Aurobindo
(Related: Gita, Race, Spiritual)
"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."
- Sri Aurobindo
(Related: Religion, Hindu)
"This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace."
- David Axelrod
(Related: People, Idea, Today)
"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."
- Dan Aykroyd
(Related: Race)
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
- Charles Babbage
(Related: Mathematics, Race)
"I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet."
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
(Related: Change, Race, Will)
"The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same."
- Michael Baden
(Related: People, Expertise, Living)
"A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source."
- Arthur Baer
"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement."
- Fredrik Bajer
(Related: Leadership, Peace, Time, Art, Science, Progress, Growth, Responsibility, Will)
"Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll."
- Dusty Baker
(Related: Care, Help, Race, Summer)
"One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Separation)
"We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards."
- John Baldacci
(Related: Development, Right, Security)
"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: People, Hope, Race)
"In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time."
- James M. Baldwin
(Related: History, Time, Thought, May, Psychology, Race, Self, Study)
"The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other."
- James M. Baldwin
(Related: Progress, Dependence, Race, Reason)
"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Race)
"It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Calculations, Giants, Man, Race)
"I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone."
- Eric Bana
(Related: Home, Race)
"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
- Russell Banks
(Related: Act, Community, Play)
"I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe."
- Benjamin Banneker
(Related: Gratitude, African, Race, Sense, Universe)
"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Time, May, Race, Running, Weather, Wind)
"I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect."
- Roger Bannister
"I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Privilege, Race)
"I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Feeling, Running)
"I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Children, English, Games, School)
"I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: People, Race, Want)
"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."
- Lynn Barber
(Related: Race, Variety)
"Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Winning, Meeting, Race)
"Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering."
- Fred Barnes
(Related: Fear, Global warming, Man, Public, Support)
"Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Children, Country, Crime, Police)
"People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy."
- John Barrow
(Related: People, Financial, Act)
"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'"
- Dave Barry
(Related: Potential, Race, Reason, Will, Word)
"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Class, Race)
"Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: Butterflies, Ugly)
"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
(Related: Success, Grace, Memory)
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."
- Karl Barth
(Related: God, Grace, Laughter)
"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
- Karl Barth
(Related: Life, Expression, Grace)
"The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life."
- Grace Baruch
(Related: Life, Job, Self, Woman)
"The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships."
- Grace Baruch
(Related: Men, Nature, Women, Work, Relationships)
"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Love, Future, Light, Shadow, World)
"I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly."
- Kylie Bax
(Related: Ugly)
"In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own."
- Birch Bayh
(Related: Fact, Race, State)
"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: History, Nothing, Race)
"One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: People, Children, Grace)
"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."
- Amanda Beard
(Related: Race)
"One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: Age, Eyes, Giving, Trying)
"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."
- Beck
(Related: Art, Nature, Mother, Attitude)
"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."
- Catharine Beecher
(Related: Race, Right, Teachers, Want)
"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: God, Men, Nurses)
"We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?"
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Love, Computers, Race, Right, World)
"It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it."
- Camilla Belle
(Related: Hair, Mourning, Rest)
"The grace of God is courtesy."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: God, Courtesy, Grace)
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Artist, Grace, Reason)
"Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Age, Power, Wisdom, Achievement, Growth, Purpose, Innocence, Personal growth, Self, Understanding, Youth)
"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Ability, Sales)
"In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire."
- James Theodore Bent
(Related: Sea)
"Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Life, Race)
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
- John Berger
(Related: Imitation, Painting)
"Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient."
- Milton Berle
(Related: Disgrace, Poverty)
"The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were."
- Daniel Berrigan
(Related: Creation, Earth, Military, Race)
"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake."
- Daniel Berrigan
(Related: Death, Peace, War, Disgrace, Prison)
"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
- Wendell Berry
(Related: Peace, Time, Tax, Grace, Grief, Rest, World)
"The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood."
- Mary Mcleod Bethune
(Related: Character, Race, Worth)
"Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race."
- Mary McLeod Bethune
(Related: History, Time, Development, Glory, Race)
"For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast."
- Paul Bettany
(Related: Being, Clothes, Day, End, First, Grace, Reason, Respect, Rest)
"We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands."
- Albert J. Beveridge
(Related: Blood, Race)
"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man."
- William Beveridge
(Related: Government, Happiness, Peace, War, Glory, Man)
"After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth."
- John Biddle
(Related: God, Truth, Knowledge, Opinion, Principles, Reason, Scripture, Spirit)
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, Acquaintance, Folly, Old)
"Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Care, Man)
"No one can disgrace us but ourselves."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Disgrace)
"My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him."
- Rachel Bilson
(Related: Connection, Favorite, Grace)
"Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race."
- Tim Bishop
(Related: Religion, Leaders, Murder, Nation, Race, World)
"Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press."
- Hugo Black
(Related: Government, Criticism, Free speech, Freedom, Press, Right)
"The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening."
- Richard Blackmore
(Related: Home, Flowers, Summer)
"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently."
- Harry A. Blackmun
(Related: First, Order, Race, Racism)
"Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Politics, Trust, People, Opportunity, Decisions)
"Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder."
- Steve Blake
(Related: People, Disorder, Hatred, Pretty, Race, Today)
"We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right."
- Steve Blake
(Related: People, Survival, First, Respect, Right)
"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."
- William Blake
(Related: Music, Poetry, Nations, Painting, Race)
"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."
- William Blake
(Related: Virtue, Hate, Liberty, Race, Slavery, World)
"Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Age, Poor, Poverty, Race, Religious)
"Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette."
- Bill Blass
(Related: Women, Glamour)
"It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them."
- H. P. Blavatsky
(Related: Religion, Body, Past, Philosophy, Shadows)
"Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding."
- Wolf Blitzer
(Related: Pretty, Race)
"Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Strength, Spirits)
"Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Trees)
"When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Girlfriend, Running)
"Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: War, Dreams, Freedom, Terror)
"It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: War, Dreams, Freedom, Terror)
"It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations."
- Vida Blue
(Related: Men, Baseball, Games, Race, Vietnam)
"At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives."
- Earl Blumenauer
(Related: Time, American, Cause, Democracy, Disgrace, Exercise, Iraq, Republican, Soldiers)
"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: History, Beginning, Country, End, Rights, Race, Voting)
"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
- Franz Boas
(Related: Mankind, Present)
"So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction."
- David Bohm
(Related: Technology, Power, Destruction, Race, Wonder)
"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Land, Man, Poor, Race)
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Women, Doubt, Fire, Race)
"In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Charm)
"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Courage, Dignity, May, State)
"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Love, Ability, Consciousness, Space)
"The human race is governed by its imagination."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Imagination, Race)
"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Music, Race, Voice)
"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage."
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
(Related: Creativity, Mankind, Nation)
"In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Love, Successful, Ambition, Merit)
"We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race."
- Hal Boyle
(Related: Man, Race, Worry)
"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."
- Francis J. Braceland
(Related: May, Sorrow, Tears)
"The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race."
- Charles Bradlaugh
(Related: Life, People, Hope, Abuse, Day, Denial, Race)
"Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Power, God, Strength, Grace)
"The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Victory, Civil rights, Racism)
"Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
(Related: Heart, Day, Grace, Spiritual, Tomorrow, Will, Worry)
"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
(Related: Peace, Heart, Abundance, Awareness, Contentment, Grace, Mind, Open, Waiting, Will)
"Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
(Related: Heart, Being, Day, Giving, Grace)
"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."
- Andre Breton
(Related: Illusion, Learning)
"I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: People, Horses)
"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"
- Joseph Brodsky
(Related: Race)
"I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York."
- Josh Brolin
(Related: Play)
"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created."
- Jacob Bronowski
(Related: Man)
"No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, God, Greatness, Man, Mankind, Race)
"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
- A. Whitney Brown
(Related: Humor, Grace)
"If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."
- Henry Billings Brown
(Related: Constitution, Race, states, United)
"The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence."
- Tammy Bruce
(Related: Values, Absence, Culture, Question, Rest, Will)
"All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution."
- William Jennings Bryan
(Related: America, Evolution, Teaching)
"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."
- Bill Bryson
(Related: Expression, Race)
"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
- Martin Buber
(Related: World)
"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Evil, Prejudice, Race, Shadow)
"The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential."
- Betty Buckley
(Related: Equality, Life, Work, Chance, Woman)
"I believe that the whole human race is the family of God."
- Pat Buckley
(Related: Family, God, Race)
"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you."
- Frederick Buechner
(Related: God, Life, Grace, Party)
"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Financial, Depression, Military, Oil, President, Resignation, states, United, World)
"The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love."
- Sitting Bull
(Related: Love, Earth, Results, Sun)
"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"
- Sitting Bull
(Related: Earth, Friends, Results, Spring, Sun)
"I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Science, War, Work, Fiction, Project, Race, World, World war)
"We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less."
- Ralph Bunche
(Related: Country, Fight, Fools, Idiots, Race, World)
"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
- Wilfred Burchett
(Related: Theory)
"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."
- Julie Burchill
(Related: Life, Women, Abortion, Fact, Freedom)
"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."
- Julie Burchill
(Related: Fame, Hollywood, Old, Suicide, Youth)
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Society, Nobility, Order)
"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
- Solomon Burke
(Related: Work, God)
"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Poets, Race)
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
- Richard Burton
(Related: Friendship, Life, Animation, Ivy)
"Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest."
- Richard Francis Burton
(Related: Son, Passion, Poets)
"The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream."
- Barbara Bush
(Related: Society, Dream, First, Race, Will)
"You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right."
- Laura Bush
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Race, Right, Today)
"Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies."
- Judith Butler
(Related: Work, Class, Race, Sexuality)
"There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Goodness)
"It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give."
- Jack Cade
(Related: Cause, Grace, Judgment, Man, May, Will)
"If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race."
- Abraham Cahan
(Related: Life, People, Measure, Race, Spiritual)
"The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Soul, Race, Will)
"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."
- John Calvin
(Related: Evil, Grace, Reason, Will)
"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation."
- John Calvin
(Related: God, Glory, Justice, Mercy, Merit, Punishment, Race, Salvation, Sin)
"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
- Italo Calvino
(Related: Living, Race, Zone)
"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."
- Patrick Campbell
(Related: Love, Heart, Courage)
"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Death, Habit, Body, Living, Race, Thinking)
"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
- Karel Capek
(Related: Work, Men, Women, Machines, Race, World)
"Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life."
- Mariah Carey
(Related: Life, Music, Grace, Singing, Talking)
"The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low."
- Richard Carlson
"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Breeding, Rights)
"A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace."
- Marcel Carne
(Related: People, Disgrace)
"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
(Related: Survival, Competition, Law, May, Race)
"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Cause, Country, Disgrace, Excuses, Potential, Terrorism)
"The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Abortion, Commitment, Party, Wrong)
"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
- Dan Castellaneta
(Related: Duty, Jury)
"Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Diversity, Excellence, Right, State, Students)
"I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization."
- George Catlin
(Related: Men, Civilization, Now, Past, Years)
"So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race."
- Arthur Cayley
(Related: Development, Evolution, May, Meeting, Principles, Race)
"On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Equality, Laws, Practice, Theories)
"I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: God, Grace, Man, Unworthy)
"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
- Chanakya
(Related: Life, Causes, Day, Disgrace, Grief, Loss)
"It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites."
- Ralph Chaplin
(Related: Food, Being, Earth, Property, Race, World)
"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration."
- Tracy Chapman
(Related: Inspiration)
"A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof."
- Rene Char
(Related: Proof)
"Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(Related: Love, Men, Ability, Earth, Living)
"For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Conscience, Grace, Investigation, Reading, Scripture)
"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."
- Maurice Chevalier
(Related: Happiness, May, Mountains, Will)
"If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Growth, Act, Decisions, First, Now, Race, states, Will)
"But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Funny, People, Will, Word)
"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Heart, Luck, Nation, Race)
"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Race)
"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Prosperity, Race, Wishes)
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Nature, Character, Circumstances, Habits, Heredity, Race)
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Nature, Children, Gifts, Man, Race)
"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 Tullius Cicero
(Related: Life, Confidence, Race, Self)
"There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water."
- Alan Clark
(Related: Politics, Blood, Friends, Waiting, Water)
"You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race."
- J. Reuben Clark
(Related: Blessings, Care, Freedom, Land, Providence, Race)
"A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable."
- John Bates Clark
(Related: Sight)
"Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Man, May, Race)
"It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: God, Grace, Sin)
"It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Life, Fame, Public)
"Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him."
- John Clayton
(Related: God, Positive, Fact, Grace, Man, Thanksgiving)
"Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone."
- Powell Clayton
(Related: Idea, Conservative, Liberalism)
"I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated."
- Brian P. Cleary
(Related: Love)
"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
- John Cleese
(Related: Idea)
"Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Help, May, Race)
"You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Family, Health, Legal, Abortion, Planning)
"Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market."
- Arthur Hugh Clough
(Related: God, Knowledge, Grace)
"Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all."
- Frances Power Cobbe
(Related: Work, Class, Old, Order, Race)
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
- Alan Cohen
(Related: Change, Power, Life, Courage, Security)
"The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Family, Achievement, Children, Effect, Race, Results)
"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Genius, Man, School)
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Marriage, Grace)
"I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Purpose, Grace, Mercy)
"My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run."
- Dennis Conner
(Related: Goal)
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Illusion, Passion, Temperament, Want)
"As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later."
- Alistair Cooke
(Related: Enthusiasm, American, Vulgarity, Years)
"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Conviction, Grace, Man, May, Nothing, Oratory, Order, Tact, Will)
"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Food, Time, Sex, Race, Thinking)
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: American, Constitution, Privilege, Race)
"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity."
- Anna Julia Cooper
(Related: Cause, Class, Freedom, Humanity, Party, Race)
"A race cannot be purified from without."
- Anna Julia Cooper
(Related: Race)
"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world."
- James F. Cooper
(Related: Business, Life, Control, Consulting, Rest, World)
"With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings."
- Jim Cooper
(Related: Government)
"Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy."
- John Sherman Cooper
(Related: Care)
"President Obama has embraced a partisan, polarizing strategy since day one when he chose hyper-partisan Rahm Emanuel to be his White House Chief of Staff."
- Rory Cooper
(Related: Strategy, Day, President)
"I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it."
- Pete Coors
(Related: Wife, Congress)
"My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Life, Hell, Living, Worth)
"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Crime, Disgrace)
"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Disgrace, Honor)
"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race."
- Ezra Cornell
(Related: Marriage, Determination, Improvement, Practice, Race)
"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."
- Pierre de Coubertin
(Related: Age, Property, Race, Spirit)
"I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time."
- Katie Couric
(Related: Time, People, Dignity, Grace, Manners, Project, Trying)
"Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures."
- Bob Cousy
(Related: Family, Race)
"If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her."
- Simon Cowell
(Related: American)
"I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer."
- Wayne Coyne
(Related: Idea)
"In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition."
- Ralph A. Cram
(Related: Character, Aristocracy, Evil, Measure, Race, Tradition)
"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: Talent, Genius, Poverty)
"I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Country, Disgrace, Duty, Gain, Ruin, Self, Will)
"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: History, Time, Sex, Babies, Example, First, Race)
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Body, Existence, Fact, First, Mind, Mortality, Reality, Self)
"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man."
- George Crook
(Related: Positive, Man, Mind, Prejudice, Race, Will)
"I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!"
- Denise Crosby
(Related: Men, History, People, Present, Race, Want, Will)
"New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush."
- Andrew Cuomo
(Related: Government, Time, Boss, Performance, Blush, Corruption, Disgrace, Now, State, Taxes)
"I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Age, Life, Mother, People, Trying)
"The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones."
- George Cuvier
"I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public."
- Matt Damon
(Related: Life, People, Being, Crowds, Events, Public, Risk, Worth)
"Don't fear change - embrace it."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: Change, Fear)
"I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it."
- Ted Danson
(Related: Play)
"It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?"
- Glenn Danzig
(Related: Power, People, Evil, Kids, Trying)
"After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Soul, Deep, Exercise, Grace)
"I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Grace)
"I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen."
- Grace Darling
(Related: Gentlemen, State)
"Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil."
- Grace Darling
(Related: Pen)
"The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night."
- Grace Darling
(Related: Night)
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Future, Man, Will, World)
"In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!"
- Bette Davis
"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."
- Richard Harding Davis
(Related: Army, Night, Sleep)
"It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Christianity, Culture, Mission, Race)
"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Nature, Being, Culture, Divinity, Grace, Humanism, Order)
"We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Love, Brothers, Production, Race, Workers)
"The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable."
- Thomas Day
(Related: Nature, Heart, Disgrace, Fact, Human nature, Interest, Name, Now, Trifle)
"But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?"
- Thomas Day
(Related: Peace, War, America, Inventions)
"Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings."
- Howard Dean
(Related: People, Values, Day, Hypocrisy, Party, Republican)
"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Technology, Law, Rest, World)
"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."
- Guy Debord
(Related: Idea, Progress, Ideas, Improvement, Meaning, Plagiarism, Right, Words)
"I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges."
- Anita Desai
(Related: Connection)
"Is the human race a universal constructor?"
- David Deutsch
(Related: Race)
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
- Richard M. DeVos
(Related: Victory, Battle, Race)
"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
- Bernard Devoto
(Related: Government, People, Congress, Race)
"I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet."
- Casper Van Dien
(Related: Destiny, Film, Race)
"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Courage, Grace)
"Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."
- Christian Dior
(Related: Women)
"But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business."
- Everett Dirksen
(Related: Business, Power, Difficulty)
"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Independence, Nationality, Race)
"Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Company, Now, Race)
"I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Opportunity, Goals, Growing up, Living, Race)
"You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Career)
"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."
- Mary Docter
(Related: Race, Relax)
"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Ability, American, Chance, Circumstances, Effort, Freedom, Gender, Privacy, Race, Will)
"It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words."
- Anthony Doerr
(Related: Grace, Reading, Research, Teaching, Words, Years)
"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
- John Donne
(Related: Beauty, Grace, Spring, Summer)
"There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Life, America, Culture, Liberals, Majority, Morals)
"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."
- Carl Van Doren
(Related: Conformity, Credulity, Man, Race, Sheep)
"Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement."
- Kyan Douglas
(Related: Light, Shadow)
"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Age, Time, Poetry, Sex, Race)
"My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race."
- K. Eric Drexler
(Related: Technology, Attention, Concern, Public, Race)
"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."
- K. Eric Drexler
(Related: Race, Understanding)
"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
(Related: Love, Virtue, End, Goodness, Grace, Will)
"Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests."
- David Duke
(Related: Government, Goal, American, Media, Race, Separation)
"Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people... Jews are filled with more hatred and rage for our race, for our heritage, for our blood than perhaps you can imagine."
- David Duke
(Related: People, American, Blood, Hatred, Race)
"There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Problems, Race, World)
"You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style."
- Faye Dunaway
(Related: Time, Now, Right, Style)
"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking."
- Isadora Duncan
(Related: American, Ballet, Body, Grace, School, Spirit, Walking)
"You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Music, Culture, Literature)
"I've got to win every race."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Race)
"It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Work, Building, Future, Planning, Race)
"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Race, Years)
"Finishing races is important, but racing is more important."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Racing)
"But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Determination)
"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Race)
"If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Being, Saying)
"To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Winning, Martin, Pretty)
"The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Change, Fans, Race, Sun)
"That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Race)
"People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: People, Race)
"Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding."
- Michael East
(Related: Race)
"Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do."
- Michael East
(Related: Race)
"If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that."
- Michael East
(Related: Race)
"The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Religion, Man, Race, Will)
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography."
- George Eastman
(Related: Love, Key, Light, Photography, Will, Worth)
"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Parents)
"I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors."
- Billy Eckstine
(Related: People, Being, Colors, Fact, Race, Skin)
"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Society, America, Class, Gender, Help, Race)
"I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey."
- Kenneth Edmonds
(Related: People, Feelings, Want)
"Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race."
- Blake Edwards
(Related: Emotion, Order, Race, Shame)
"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined."
- Elizabeth Edwards
(Related: Faith, Life, Power, Family, Hope, Friends, Joy)
"Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Glory, Grace)
"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Beauty, Nature, Compassion, Living)
"The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."
- George Eliot
(Related: God, Action, Choice, May, Memory, Race, Sons)
"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."
- George Eliot
(Related: Love, Friends, Old, Words)
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
- Walter Elliot
(Related: Perseverance, Race)
"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Act)
"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."
- Henry Ellis
(Related: Music, Prayer, Romantic)
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Civilization, End, Race, Will)
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Beauty, Grace)
"Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Truth)
"My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Life, Children, Now)
"One thing that success has taught me is censorship."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Success, Censorship)
"People don't remember. Revenge is sweet."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: People, Revenge)
"People try constantly to use me, and I hate it."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: People, Hate)
"Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: People, Right)
"The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Idea, Fiction)
"There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Work, People, Nothing)
"They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: World)
"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Experience, Truth)
"With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: End)
"They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Wind)
"It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Memory, Now, Years)
"There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Now, Saying, Wrong)
"I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Thought)
"It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Time, Work, Committee, Conservative)
"When I got the phrase media whore thrown in my face last year, I thought, Oh my God, if you only knew."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: God, Thought, Media)
"All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Life, Mistakes)
"I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up."
- Tracey Emin
"I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Apology, Fish, Tomorrow)
"I never grew up."
- Tracey Emin
"I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Drinks, Fun, Trying, Wrong)
"I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you."
- Tracey Emin
"I've been slagged off completely by the art world."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Art, World)
"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Life, Want)
"If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Work, Feeling, Want, Years)
"It pleases me that people can be interactive."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: People)
"It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Dancing)
"I have hardly any friends who aren't gay."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Friends, Gay)
"If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race."
- Omar Epps
(Related: Life, Brotherhood, Race)
"In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude."
- Thomas Erskine
(Related: Religion, Gratitude, Ethics, Grace, New testament)
"When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany."
- Juan Manuel Fangio
(Related: Wife, Thought, Germany, Want)
"ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked."
- Dakota Fanning
(Related: Car, Accident)
"I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Class, Culture, Nationality, Race, Reason, Therapy, Will)
"Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them."
- Eliza Farnham
(Related: Life, God, Being, Grace, Office)
"I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between."
- Mia Farrow
(Related: Life, Losing, Now)
"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Equality, Being, Living, Race, Snow, Today, World)
"The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation."
- Diane Feinstein
(Related: Time, Sex, Opportunity, American, Country, Race, Right)
"Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts."
- Dianne Feinstein
(Related: Leadership, Time, Nation, Now, Race)
"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."
- Brian Ferneyhough
(Related: Being, Force)
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
- Richard P. Feynman
(Related: Time, Beginning, Future, Problems, Race, Responsibility, Years)
"Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race."
- Frank Field
(Related: Democracy, Politicians, Poor, Race)
"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."
- W. C. Fields
(Related: Death, Life, Hope, Disgrace, Duty)
"The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition."
- Eva Figes
(Related: Logic, Race)
"Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again."
- Ruth First
(Related: Work, Cities, Land, Poverty, Race, Security)
"I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world."
- Joely Fisher
(Related: Race, Trying, World)
"The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice."
- Terence Fisher
(Related: Idea, Choice, Now, Word)
"You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race."
- Emerson Fittipaldi
(Related: Heart, Energy, Pressure, Race, Relax)
"To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!"
- Emerson Fittipaldi
(Related: God, Chance, Formula, Race, Risk)
"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."
- Emerson Fittipaldi
(Related: Formula, Race)
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: People, Man, Respect)
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: Intelligence, Men, Difference, Race)
"This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate."
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
(Related: Father, Devotion, Order, Race, Republican, State, Will)
"I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human."
- Calista Flockhart
(Related: Love)
"When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past."
- Fernando Flores
(Related: Past, Prison)
"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Belief, Curiosity, Humanism, Mind, Race, Taste)
"Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors."
- Bill Forsyth
(Related: Humor, Life, Thought, People, Problems, Race)
"There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid."
- John Fowles
"If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region."
- Liam Fox
(Related: Countries, End, Race, State, Will, World)
"The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet."
- Virginia Foxx
(Related: Diet, Exercise, Kids, Obesity)
"My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong."
- A. J. Foyt
(Related: Dad, People, Successful, Luck, Race, Running, Saying, Wrong)
"When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces."
- James Franco
(Related: Mom, Actor, Want)
"America faces a new race that has awakened."
- E. Franklin Frazier
(Related: America, Faces, Race)
"My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000."
- Cathy Freeman
(Related: Race)
"I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old."
- Cathy Freeman
(Related: Expectation, First, Race)
"I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations."
- Ace Frehley
(Related: Moon, Race, Space)
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Act, Disgrace, State, Violence)
"Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing."
- Ford Frick
(Related: Work, Trouble, Will)
"I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year."
- David Friedman
(Related: Christmas, Goodbye, Grace, Luck)
"We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Education, Winning, First, Public, Race)
"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Love, Man, Reason, World)
"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Disgrace, Public, School)
"Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace."
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
(Related: Grace, Necessity)
"Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another."
- Richard Le Gallienne
(Related: Nations)
"I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Anger, God, Effort, Grace)
"I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: God, Creation, Lust, Man, Race, Will, Woman)
"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Errors, Humility)
"Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Religion, Generosity, Possession, Race, Self)
"Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray."
- Joe Garagiola
(Related: Home, Baseball, First, Race, Rules)
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Houses, Today)
"You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave."
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
(Related: Beauty, Women, Children, Cowards, Daughters, Land, Will)
"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: American, Friends, Race)
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Life, Confidence, Race, Self)
"There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Liberty, Race, Solution)
"Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will."
- Marcus Garvey
(Related: Race, Will)
"You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model."
- Haile Gebrselassie
(Related: Winning, Career, Country, Help, Want)
"When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds."
- Haile Gebrselassie
(Related: London, Race, Will, World)
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
- Uri Geller
(Related: Television, Woman)
"On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Related: Baseball, Decency, Race)
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Love, Being)
"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
- William Gibson
(Related: Information)
"When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Mother, Evolution, Race, Right, World)
"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Catastrophes)
"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Race, Selfishness)
"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."
- Danny Glover
(Related: Jobs, Past, Want)
"The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers."
- Gail Godwin
(Related: Children, Race)
"I'm not acting, but I am acting."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Acting)
"My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Body, Walking)
"Life comes full circle."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Life)
"I've got a pretty good appetite right now."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Appetite, Now, Pretty, Right)
"I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia."
- Tracey Gold
"I've been so in my moment about my life."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Life)
"I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: People, Skepticism)
"I had a very public battle with anorexia."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Battle, Public)
"Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Food, Control)
"I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Mother)
"Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Actor, Being, Celebrity, Eye, Public, Will)
"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Reason)
"I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: God, Religious, Spiritual)
"I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: People, Being, Growing up, Therapy, Voice, Years)
"I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Faith, Justice, Right, Trying, Will)
"I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive."
- Tracey Gold
"I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Car, Responsibility)
"I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Love, Mother, Acting, Being)
"I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Car, Experience, Control, Wrong)
"I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman."
- Tracey Gold
"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Car, Crime, Will)
"I'll always have a baby face."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Baby)
"I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Thought, Gain, Weight)
"You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Life, Talk, Therapy)
"All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Boys)
"When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Old, Public, Self, Years)
"After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Thought, Hate, Mothers)
"You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Chance, Evening, Judgment)
"You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Life, Body)
"You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI."
- Tracey Gold
"Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Care, Forget)
"Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Family, Time, Husband)
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Change, Vision, Possibilities, Race)
"I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!"
- Selena Gomez
(Related: Time, People, Fact, Manners, Memory)
"No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money."
- Samuel Gompers
(Related: Money, Children, Race)
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
- Samuel Gompers
(Related: Day, Labor, Living, Man, Nation, Race)
"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."
- Ellen Goodman
(Related: Life, Vision, Job, Value)
"The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace."
- Thomas Goodwin
(Related: God, Children, Grace, Now, Parents)
"When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race."
- Jeff Gordon
(Related: Car, Emotions, Race)
"So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars."
- Jeff Gordon
(Related: Life, Driving, Race)
"Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it."
- Herman Gorter
(Related: Disease, Doubt, Will)
"I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic."
- Topher Grace
(Related: Funny, Life, Comedy, Day, Drama, Project)
"I don't talk about my personal life with the press."
- Topher Grace
(Related: Life, Press, Talk)
"There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart."
- Gloria Grahame
(Related: Life, Time, Body, Race)
"I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character."
- Kelsey Grammer
(Related: People, Character, Actor, Chance, Fun, Play)
"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor."
- Ulysses S. Grant
(Related: Men, Disgrace, Labor, Man)
"Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas."
- Horace Gray
"Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."
- Horace Gray
(Related: Country, Protection, states, United)
"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Democrats)
"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Illusion)
"Apathy is a sort of living oblivion."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Apathy, Living)
"Common sense is very uncommon."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Common sense)
"Ease up, the play is over."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Play)
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Character, Accident, Fame, Popularity)
"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Country, Man)
"Go west, young man."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Man)
"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Appetite, Will)
"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Journalism, Will)
"There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Bigotry)
"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Life, Money, Man)
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
- Horace Greeley
(Related: Rights, Man)
"In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall."
- Meg Greenfield
(Related: Honor, Washington)
"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."
- Alan Gregg
(Related: Experience, Adversity, Now, Prosperity, Race, Tradition)
"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."
- Dick Gregory
(Related: Being, Medicine, Race)
"My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square."
- Horace Gregory
(Related: Islands)
"Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Bargain, Country, Disgrace, France, Germany, Name)
"If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Peace, Alliance, America, Cause, EnglFuture, Influence, Race, Will, World)
"What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Death, Life, Blood, Forgetfulness, Living, Suicide, Worth, Yield)
"Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out."
- David Alan Grier
(Related: Car, Race)
"My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions."
- Pam Grier
(Related: Family)
"What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it."
- Angelina Grimke
(Related: People, Common sense, Man, Mind, Nation, Now, Race, Woman)
"Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down."
- Francis J. Grimke
(Related: Prejudice, Race)
"Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious."
- Stanislav Grof
(Related: Culture, Race, Unconscious)
"Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Humility)
"The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Grace, Will)
"Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Truth, Grace)
"God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace."
- William Gurnall
(Related: God, Debt, Grace, Names)
"After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?"
- Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
(Related: Sacrifice, People, Independence, Result, Suffering)
"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster."
- Thomas Guthrie
(Related: Art, Nature, Grace, Treatment)
"Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: Future, Now, Will)
"Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be."
- Ian Hacking
(Related: Race)
"Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past."
- Granville Stanley Hall
(Related: Time, Adolescence, Past, Race)
"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."
- Johann G. Hamann
(Related: Poetry, Mother, Race)
"For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are."
- Guy Hamilton
(Related: Earth, Months, Years)
"We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law."
- Lee H. Hamilton
(Related: American, Countries, Democracy, Law, Support)
"There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one."
- Mia Hamm
(Related: Will)
"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
- Kirk Hammett
(Related: Guitar, Race, Want)
"If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption."
- Henry Hampton
(Related: Life, America, Race)
"A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers."
- Grace Hansen
(Related: Wedding, Flowers)
"I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running."
- Grace Hansen
(Related: Comedians, Office, Running)
"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin."
- Grace Hansen
(Related: Life, End, Will)
"For some time I've had my eye on Tom McCall's seat - which is a great deal more than he's had on it."
- Grace Hansen
(Related: Time, Eye)
"A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side."
- Pauline Hanson
(Related: Society, People)
"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."
- David Hare
(Related: God, Disgrace, Honor, Sin)
"Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?"
- Henry Harland
(Related: Life, Grace)
"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."
- Ben Harper
(Related: Age)
"People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society."
- Michael Harrington
(Related: Society, People, Act, Poor)
"Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun."
- Katherine Harris
(Related: Race, Today)
"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
- Sydney J. Harris
(Related: Argument, Being, Loss, Right)
"I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question."
- Jim Harrison
(Related: Question)
"Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions."
- Albert Bushnell Hart
(Related: Legal, English, Justice, Race)
"My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed."
- William S. Hart
(Related: American, Public, Race)
"We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy."
- Goldie Hawn
(Related: Joy, Obstacles)
"Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God."
- B. R. Hayden
(Related: Education, Religion, God, Evil, Grace)
"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: America, Problems, Violence)
"Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence."
- John Michael Hayes
(Related: Intelligence, Nothing, Race, Trouble)
"We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change."
- John Michael Hayes
(Related: Change, People, Race)
"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Soul, Expression, Grace, Harmony)
"Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Soul, Expression, Harmony)
"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Absence, Difficulty, Grace, Hesitation, Pain)
"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Beauty, Women, Effect, Grace)
"To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Virtue, Being, Mankind, Race)
"It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race."
- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Work, Bible, English, Exaggeration, Influence, Language, Literature, Race, Shakespeare, Will)
"Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away."
- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Inspiration, Enthusiasm, Bible, Europe)
"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
- Thomas Hearne
(Related: English, Race, Weeping)
"It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: Money, People)
"You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed."
- Eric Heiden
(Related: Race, Want)
"One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career."
- Eric Heiden
(Related: Time, Career, Right)
"Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind."
- Eric Heiden
(Related: Mind)
"We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility."
- Dorothy Height
(Related: Life, People, Caring, Colors, Dignity, Feeling, Quiet, Responsibility, Sense)
"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations."
- Gustav Heinemann
(Related: Limitations, Meeting, Race, Responsibility, Security)
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
- Robert A. Heinlein
(Related: People, Conservative, Desire, Liberal, Race, Want)
"There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born."
- Anna Held
(Related: Time, Disgrace)
"We must go fast, because the race is against time."
- Anna Held
(Related: Time, Race)
"The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy."
- Mark Helprin
(Related: Life, Anarchy, Pearls, Perfection, Race)
"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Beauty, Cosmetics, Humility, Modesty, Purity, Spirit, Temper, Temperance)
"Courage is grace under pressure."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Courage, Grace, Pressure)
"The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat."
- Joe Henderson
(Related: Time, Defeat, Race, Running)
"I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut."
- Joe Henderson
(Related: Time, Day, Race)
"Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily."
- Joe Henderson
(Related: Time, Work, Fun, Trials)
"I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment."
- Jill Hennessy
(Related: Life, Journey, Living, Man, Mind, Open)
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."
- Matthew Henry
(Related: Punishment)
"East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State."
- O. Henry
(Related: People, Race, State)
"All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows."
- Philip Henry
(Related: Love, God, Grace, Word)
"This can not be about a race to the bottom."
- Alexis Herman
(Related: Race)
"Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race."
- Hesiod
(Related: End, Justice, Race)
"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."
- Hesiod
(Related: Victory, Disgrace, Man, Suffering)
"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace."
- Hesiod
(Related: Work, Disgrace, Idleness)
"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Grace, Perfection, Sin, World)
"It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together."
- Billy Higgins
(Related: People)
"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: Race)
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
- David Hilbert
(Related: Country, Mathematics, World)
"We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice."
- Anita Hill
(Related: History, Court, Gender, Justice, Pursuit, Race)
"The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination."
- Anita Hill
(Related: History, Sex, Complaints, Discrimination, Race)
"If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender."
- Anita Hill
(Related: Gender, Race)
"In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year."
- Baron Hill
(Related: Race)
"I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews."
- Damon Hill
(Related: Time, Anxiety, Mind, Race)
"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."
- Damon Hill
(Related: Race, Years)
"Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying."
- Damon Hill
(Related: Winning, Race)
"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
- James Hillman
(Related: Class, Economics, Gender, Race, Result)
"I race to win, not to please people."
- Bernard Hinault
(Related: People, Race)
"They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races."
- Emperor Hirohito
(Related: People, Legends, Myths)
"We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race."
- James P. Hoffa
(Related: Numbers, Public, Race, Vote)
"My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet."
- Samuel Hoffenstein
(Related: Diet, Soul)
"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 Hoffer
(Related: Man, Play, Skill)
"The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Art, Living, Old)
"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."
- Eric Holder
(Related: Americans, Nation, Race, Talk)
"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
- Brad Holland
(Related: Artists, Cliches, Culture, Nothing)
"A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled."
- Thomas Hood
(Related: Being, Race, Taste)
"I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Father, Friend, Race, Years)
"So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them."
- Thomas Hooker
(Related: Truth, May, Shadows, Sorrow)
"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Related: English, Gentleman, Mankind, Nothing, Race, Service, World)
"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other."
- Mark Hopkins
(Related: Love, Power, Affection, Consciousness, Exercise, Giving, Race)
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
- Grace Hopper
(Related: Ships)
"I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?""
- Grace Hopper
"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
- Grace Hopper
(Related: Idea)
"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
- Grace Hopper
(Related: Forgiveness)
"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."
- Horace
(Related: Death, World)
"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning."
- Horace
(Related: Beginning, Deed)
"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass."
- Horace
"He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long."
- Horace
(Related: Words)
"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
- Horace
(Related: Living)
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
- Horace
(Related: Genius, Adversity, Prosperity)
"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."
- Horace
(Related: Hate)
"Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing."
- Horace
(Related: First, Sense, Writing)
"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well."
- Horace
(Related: Time)
"I strive to be brief but I become obscure."
- Horace
"I teach that all men are mad."
- Horace
(Related: Men)
"If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him."
- Horace
(Related: Fortune, Man)
"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
- Horace
(Related: Now, Will)
"If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself."
- Horace
(Related: First, Grief)
"He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."
- Horace
"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance."
- Horace
(Related: Effort, Exercise)
"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."
- Horace
(Related: Country)
"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
- Horace
(Related: Favors, Fool, Fortune)
"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
- Horace
(Related: Sister, Fidelity, Justice)
"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."
- Horace
(Related: Death, Time, Law)
"Every old poem is sacred."
- Horace
(Related: Old)
"Don't think, just do."
- Horace
"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
- Horace
(Related: Body, Excess, Mind, Yesterday)
"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
- Horace
(Related: May)
"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth."
- Horace
(Related: Day, Future)
"Begin, be bold and venture to be wise."
- Horace
"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them."
- Horace
(Related: Open, Will)
"Anger is a short madness."
- Horace
(Related: Anger, Madness)
"Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score."
- Horace
"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."
- Horace
(Related: Approval)
"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."
- Horace
(Related: Statistics)
"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."
- Horace
(Related: Safety)
"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."
- Horace
(Related: Happiness, Man, Mind, World)
"You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren."
- Horace
"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."
- Horace
(Related: Nature, May, Running)
"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
- Horace
(Related: Will, Words)
"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."
- Horace
(Related: Wisdom, Books)
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
- Horace
(Related: Soul, Cure, Eye)
"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
- Horace
(Related: Man)
"While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one."
- Horace
(Related: Faults, Fools)
"When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed."
- Horace
"Whatever advice you give, be short."
- Horace
(Related: Advice)
"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."
- Horace
(Related: Impression, Eye)
"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
- Horace
(Related: Adversity, Mind)
"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
- Horace
(Related: Crime, Disgrace)
"In labouring to be concise, I become obscure."
- Horace
"We are free to yield to truth."
- Horace
(Related: Truth, Yield)
"Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person."
- Horace
"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."
- Horace
(Related: Fathers, Will)
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
- Horace
(Related: Fear, Friend, Man)
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
- Horace
(Related: Time, Light, Now, Will)
"This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist."
- Horace
(Related: Fault, Friends, Will)
"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
- Horace
(Related: Power, Fancy)
"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
- Horace
(Related: Mind, Pen, Tongue)
"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."
- Horace
(Related: Anger, Temper, Will)
"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."
- Horace
(Related: Man)
"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."
- Horace
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
- Horace
(Related: Life, Fools, Right)
"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."
- Horace
(Related: Envy, Poverty)
"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."
- Horace
(Related: Life, Content, Guest, World)
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
- Horace
(Related: Adversity, Circumstances, Effect)
"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably."
- Horace
(Related: Flies, Word)
"A word once uttered can never be recalled."
- Horace
(Related: Word)
"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them."
- Horace
(Related: Feet, Fortune)
"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."
- Horace
(Related: Purpose, Mankind, Pride, Right, Vices, Wrong)
"A picture is a poem without words."
- Horace
(Related: Words)
"A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius."
- Horace
(Related: Genius)
"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."
- Horace
(Related: Change, Heart, Adversity, Fortune)
"A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient."
- Horace
"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"
- Horace
(Related: Mind)
"Make a good use of the present."
- Horace
(Related: Present)
"O imitators, you slavish herd!"
- Horace
"Poets wish to profit or to please."
- Horace
(Related: Poets, Profit)
"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."
- Horace
(Related: Death, Kings, Poor)
"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."
- Horace
(Related: Death, Kings, Man, Poor)
"Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things."
- Horace
"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."
- Horace
(Related: Error, Right)
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
- Horace
(Related: Word)
"Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too."
- Horace
(Related: Travel, Darkness, Road)
"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."
- Horace
(Related: Nothing)
"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."
- Horace
(Related: Pleasure, Water)
"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
- Horace
(Related: Poems, Water)
"Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born."
- Horace
(Related: Mountains, Mouse, Silly, Will)
"Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."
- Horace
(Related: Anger, Men, Lawyers, Words)
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."
- Horace
(Related: Foolishness, Right, Silly)
"Life is largely a matter of expectation."
- Horace
(Related: Life, Expectation)
"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."
- Horace
(Related: Life, Work, Hard work, Nothing)
"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."
- Horace
(Related: Eye, Literary, Public, Years)
"Leave the rest to the gods."
- Horace
(Related: Gods, Rest)
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
- Horace
(Related: Money)
"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."
- Horace
(Related: Art, Truth, Achievement, Nothing)
"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."
- Horace
(Related: People, Quick, Thinking)
"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."
- Horace
(Related: Act, Water)
"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
- Horace
(Related: Fortune, Gain, Tomorrow)
"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
- Horace
(Related: Success, Man)
"The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice."
- Horace
(Related: Disgrace, Vice)
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
- Horace
(Related: Life, Experience, Name, Suffering, Teaching)
"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
- Horace
(Related: Passion, Will)
"Labor diligently to increase your property."
- Horace
(Related: Labor, Property)
"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."
- Horace
(Related: Life, Courage, Adversity, Blood, Present)
"It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit."
- Horace
(Related: Man, Merit, Parents)
"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
- Horace
(Related: Fools, Shame, Wounds)
"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."
- Horace
(Related: Struggle)
"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."
- Horace
(Related: Business, Fire)
"It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire."
- Horace
(Related: Concern, Fire)
"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while."
- Horace
(Related: Gay)
"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
- Horace
(Related: Education, Knowledge, Injustice)
"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."
- Horace
(Related: Life, Mind)
"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow."
- Horace
(Related: Trust, Day, Tomorrow)
"In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you."
- Judy Horacek
(Related: Hell, Machines, Will)
"To hit bottom is to fall from grace."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Grace)
"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."
- Laurence Housman
(Related: God, Nation, Race, Rest, Right)
"The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried."
- Charles Hamilton Houston
(Related: Race, states, United)
"We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives."
- Charles Hamilton Houston
(Related: America, Children, Prejudice, Race)
"Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race."
- Charles Hamilton Houston
(Related: Christianity, Battle, Fight, Losing, Race)
"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Mother, Idea, Imperfection, Uncertainty)
"I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more."
- Clara Hughes
(Related: Love, Thought, Nothing)
"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Progress, Race)
"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Age, Dawn, Grace, Old)
"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Civilization, Grace, Present, Smile)
"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Curiosity, Grace, Vanity, Woman, Word)
"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Architecture, Thought, Ideas, Race, Religious, Symbol)
"We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season."
- Lamar Hunt
(Related: Balance)
"But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way."
- Charlie Hunter
(Related: Evolution, Guitar, Play)
"In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given."
- Robert Hunter
(Related: Grace, Light, Pride, Wickedness)
"The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace."
- Tom Hunter
(Related: Disgrace, Man)
"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: May, Study)
"Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: America, Climate, May)
"It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: America)
"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Beginning, Environment, Race)
"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Mankind, Now, Theory)
"People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: Happiness, Life, People, Goal, Liberty, Pursuit, Race, Religious, State, Will)
"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Related: Race, Welfare)
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
- Robert M. Hutchins
(Related: Family, Education, Time, Class, Liberal, Man, Nation, Prison, Race)
"One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Truth, Grace, May, Salvation)
"Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking."
- John Hutton
(Related: Change, Now, Order)
"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Sleep)
"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Race)
"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Nature, Purpose, Credit)
"Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it."
- Douglas Hyde
(Related: Lonely)
"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
- Douglas Hyde
(Related: Irish, Language, Shame)
"Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming."
- Vanilla Ice
(Related: People, Idea, Sound)
"I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it."
- David Icke
(Related: Thought, Behavior, Force, Police, Race)
"I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn."
- Natalie Imbruglia
(Related: Idea, Old)
"For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries."
- Bob Inglis
(Related: Example, Future, Race)
"We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Environmental, Policy, Country, Day, Earth, Energy, Spirit)
"But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Life, Old, Race)
"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Beauty, Death, Causes, Eternity)
"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you."
- Hugh Jackman
(Related: Attitude, Americans, Being, Country, Europe, Job)
"And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government."
- Alphonso Jackson
(Related: Government, Work, Giving, Race, Stress)
"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Men, Power, Democracy, Race)
"I think the biggest thing that we are going to be able to do is focus on training, practicing, working on my starts, and taking each race one at a time."
- Ben Jackson
(Related: Time, Focus, Race, Training)
"Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity."
- Jermaine Jackson
(Related: Christianity, Islam, Answers)
"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: Health, Americans, Being, Care, Fight, Media, Race)
"How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?"
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: God, Grace, Wonders)
"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."
- Michael Jackson
(Related: American, Dignity, Pride, Race)
"When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts."
- William Jackson
(Related: Friend, Film, Old, Years)
"Also, for a team as strong as like ours, the Tour will always remain the biggest goal of the whole year, and personally I will certainly concentrate most of my energy on this race."
- Laurent Jalabert
(Related: Goal, Energy, Race, Will)
"I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace."
- Henry James
(Related: Age, Possibilities, Regret, Youth)
"I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell."
- Richard D. James
(Related: Feeling, Hair, School)
"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."
- William James
(Related: God, Grace)
"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it."
- Elizabeth Janeway
(Related: Race)
"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."
- Jim Jarmusch
(Related: Contradiction, Philosophy)
"So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood."
- Warren Jeffs
(Related: Time, Blood, Day, Generations, Race, Today, World)
"So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students."
- Warren Jeffs
(Related: Music, Race, Spirit, Students)
"And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways."
- Warren Jeffs
(Related: God, Soul, Corruption, Forget, Race, Spirit, World)
"I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically."
- Tom Jenkinson
(Related: Race)
"I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time."
- Jewel
(Related: Time, Soul, Grace)
"Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture."
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
(Related: Poetry, Culture, Grace, Literature, State)
"As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Society, Dream, American, Language)
"In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today."
- Mike Johanns
(Related: Age, Business, Ability, Day, Today, Trade)
"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
(Related: Discrimination, Gender, Race)
"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Death, People, Act, Being, Conscience, Race, Salvation)
"Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Love, People, Charity, Justice, Philanthropy, Race, Sense, Will)
"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: People, Affection, Nothing, Race, Will)
"I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough!"
- Lonnie Earl Johnson
(Related: Gender, Race, Today, World)
"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Education, Men, Opportunity, Blind, Fact, Justice, Race, Will)
"When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith."
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
(Related: Faith, People, American, Deep, Hurt, Justice, Nation, Pain, Race, Relationships)
"Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life."
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
(Related: Life, War, Civilization, Christianity, Decency, Disease, Enemy, Prejudice, Race)
"We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'"
- Tim Johnson
(Related: Health, Idea, Care, Country, Privilege, Right, World)
"Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England."
- Davy Jones
(Related: England, Property, Race, Weather)
"Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining."
- Grace Jones
(Related: Complaining, Consequences, Decisions)
"Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy."
- Grace Jones
(Related: Art, People, Fantasy, Illusion)
"Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay."
- Grace Jones
(Related: Now)
"Use, don't abuse."
- Grace Jones
(Related: Abuse)
"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Events, Mythology, Race)
"And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Actors, Blame, End, Race)
"No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Wisdom, Being, Fool, Fools, Public, Race, Rest, Writers)
"You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet."
- Hamilton Jordan
(Related: Internet, Race)
"And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote."
- Hamilton Jordan
(Related: Winning, Practicality, Race, Talking, Vote)
"The Indian race are waiting and praying."
- Chief Joseph
(Related: Race, Waiting)
"I know that my race must change."
- Chief Joseph
(Related: Change, Race)
"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Beauty, Feelings, Grace, Manners, Moderation, Spirituality)
"I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport."
- Alberto Juantorena
(Related: Country, Race, Road)
"It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: Funny, Being, First)
"I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary."
- Peter Jurasik
(Related: Acting, Actor, First)
"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."
- Juvenal
(Related: Son, Mind, Respect, Years)
"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: War, Race, World, World war)
"There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: Americans, Competition, First, Race)
"Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist."
- Tim Kaine
(Related: Act, Civil rights, Race, Republicans, Security)
"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: War, History)
"We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families."
- Denis Kearney
(Related: Men, Country, Rights, Labor, Land, Race)
"They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race."
- Denis Kearney
(Related: People, Crisis, Greed, Public, Race)
"Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel."
- John Keats
(Related: Grace, Man, Quarrel)
"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."
- Arthur Keith
(Related: Building, Difficulties, Diversity, Evolution, Population, Protection, Restraint)
"Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses."
- Arthur Keith
(Related: Nature, Men, Desire, Observation, Senses)
"If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York."
- Grace Kelly
"Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: Family, Women)
"Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: Women)
"I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: Dress, Want)
"I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: Money, Success, Want)
"I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: Fighting, Quarrel)
"Getting angry doesn't solve anything."
- Grace Kelly
"For a woman, forty is torture, the end."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: End, Woman)
"Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: Women, Mystery)
"As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: Thought, Danger, Woman)
"The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it."
- Grace Kelly
(Related: Freedom, Press)
"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."
- Lord Kelvin
(Related: Women, Performance, Horses, Race)
"The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals."
- Fanny Kemble
(Related: Animals, Blood, Inheritance, Man, Order, Race)
"A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature."
- Murray Kempton
(Related: Faith, Nature, Human nature)
"O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship."
- Thomas Ken
(Related: Religion, Care, First, Grace, Worship)
"Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive."
- Henry W. Kendall
(Related: Education, Men, Women)
"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer."
- Caroline Kennedy
(Related: Love, Mother, Brother, Energy, Gifts, Language, Libraries, Literature, Old, Open)
"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: America, Battle, Dying, Fighting, Race)
"No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions."
- Patrick J. Kennedy
(Related: People, Addiction)
"People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive."
- Phil Keoghan
(Related: Humor, People, Nothing, Race, Sense, Will)
"Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions."
- Steve Kerr
(Related: Sports, Opportunity, Country, Diversity, Kids, Schools)
"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
- Charles Kettering
(Related: Failure, Cause, Disgrace, Man, World)
"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
- Charles Kettering
(Related: Disgrace, World)
"The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child."
- Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi
(Related: People, Decision, Open)
"The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life."
- Aly Khan
(Related: History, Life, Civilization, Islam)
"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Gods, Beginning, Boredom, Evil, Wonder, World)
"I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men."
- Dorothy Kilgallen
(Related: Men, Time, Hope, Race, World)
"I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain."
- Ben Kingsley
(Related: Being)
"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."
- Maxine Hong Kingston
(Related: Work, Gods, Hard work)
"A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: People, Awards, Joy, Race)
"For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul."
- Yves Klein
(Related: Soul, Character, Being, Race)
"I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg."
- Jack Klugman
(Related: Career, Day, Race)
"Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class."
- Beyonce Knowles
(Related: Inspiration, Class, Grace, Style)
"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Life, Past, Will)
"I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Faith, Love, People, Impression, Fact, First, Talk)
"I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion."
- Dean Koontz
(Related: Religion, Behavior, Race, Service)
"When tempest tossed, embrace chaos."
- Dean Koontz
(Related: Chaos)
"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me."
- Olga Korbut
(Related: Competition, Emotion, Grace, Old, Woman, Years)
"At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Time, People, Grace, Writing, Years)
"I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race."
- Barbara Kruger
(Related: Power, Control, News, Newspapers, Race, Sexuality)
"What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures."
- David Krumholtz
(Related: Fans, Language)
"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Life, People, Desire, Grace, Loyalty)
"If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win."
- Mike Krzyzewski
(Related: People)
"Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses."
- Thomas Kuhn
(Related: Being, Man)
"That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity."
- Hans Kung
(Related: Age, Religion, Sex, Being, Dignity, Language, Race, Skin)
"Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race."
- Stanley Kunitz
(Related: Wisdom, Gods, Heroes, Mind, Myths, Old, Race, Waiting)
"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."
- Alphonse de Lamartine
(Related: Heroes, Poets, Race)
"The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend."
- Charles Lamb
(Related: Men, Theory)
"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."
- Charles Lamb
(Related: Tea)
"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."
- Anne Lamott
(Related: Grace, Mystery)
"We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender."
- Judge Mills Lane
(Related: People, Focus, Gender, Race)
"Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment."
- Walter Lang
(Related: God, Environment)
"In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today."
- Walter Lang
(Related: Beginning, Cause, Race, Relatives, Today)
"Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another."
- Walter Lang
(Related: Race)
"Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours."
- Angela Lansbury
(Related: Love, Night, Race)
"No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic."
- James Larkin
(Related: Men, Women, Destruction, EnglFight, Irish, Race)
"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition."
- Bill Laswell
(Related: Jazz, Possibilities, Tradition)
"In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ."
- Kenneth Scott Latourette
(Related: Victory, Christ, Evil, Man, Universe)
"I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things."
- Hugh Laurie
(Related: Happiness, Moments, Self)
"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."
- Wilfrid Laurier
(Related: Family, People, Canada, Friends, Language, Today)
"I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see."
- Jude Law
(Related: Family, Home, Work, Grace, Grave, Guilt, Kids, Worry)
"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Experience, Action, Adventure, Living, Man, Woman)
"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
- Norman Lear
(Related: Dad, People, Race)
"My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts."
- Chris LeDoux
(Related: End, Race)
"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 Lehrer
(Related: Ability, American, Army, Discrimination, Race)
"I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose."
- Greg LeMond
(Related: Thought, Winning, Race, Racing)
"From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points."
- David Leslie
(Related: End, First, Race)
"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."
- David Letterman
(Related: Race, Will)
"I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter."
- Joanna Noelle Levesque
(Related: Race)
"The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race."
- Jack Levine
(Related: Direction, Disappointment, Expectations, Man, Race, Saying)
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Earth, Race)
"I cried all the way to the bank."
- Liberace
"When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank."
- Liberace
"You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both."
- Liberace
"You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? I bought it."
- Liberace
"We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Goal, Americans, Building, Community, Iraq, states, United)
"Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets."
- Judith Light
(Related: Men, Women, People, Fear, Gay, Race)
"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Related: Wedding, March, Race)
"I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it."
- Bai Ling
(Related: Life, Nature, Goals, Respect, Wind)
"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
(Related: Leader, Genius, Common sense, Grace)
"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Time, Illusion, Race)
"Slow and steady wins the race."
- Robert Lloyd
(Related: Race)
"When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body."
- Heather Locklear
(Related: Baby, Body, Growing up)
"True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Religion, Race)
"The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Time, Being, English, Race, World)
"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: Beauty, Nature, Confidence, Grace)
"I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Car, Dad, Golf, Race)
"I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles."
- LaToya London
(Related: Listening, Race, Want)
"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Old, Poets)
"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Art, Work, Heart, Grace)
"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."
- Anita Loos
(Related: American, Gentlemen, Kissing, May)
"Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad."
- Lavrenti Lopes
(Related: Home, People, Race)
"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."
- Audre Lorde
(Related: Time, Sex, People, Metaphor, Race)
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Horace Lorimer
(Related: Determination, Bed, Satisfaction)
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
- George Horace Lorimer
(Related: Money)
"A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement."
- Trent Lott
(Related: Truth, Impression, Choice, Nothing, Past, Poor, Words)
"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Religion, Class, Difficulty, Geography, Race)
"If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven."
- Christopher Love
(Related: Love, Earth, Grace, Heaven, Hell, Man, Will)
"At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history."
- F. L. Lucas
(Related: History, Disgrace, Months, Will)
"It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Women, Blood, Horror, Race, Suffering)
"I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother."
- Derek Luke
(Related: Home, Movies, Time, Mother, Father, Colors, Poor, Rejection, Talk)
"It could potentially be a very competitive race."
- Bill Luther
(Related: Race)
"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Faith, Life, God, Confidence, Grace, Living, Man)
"So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered."
- Charles Lyell
(Related: Change, Population, Race)
"I'm Liberace without a piano."
- Paul Lynde
"A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised."
- Alicia Machado
(Related: Education, Home, Culture, Man, Nothing, Race, World)
"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery."
- Arthur Machen
(Related: Knowledge, Mystery, Principles)
"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: Being)
"An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent."
- Charles Mackay
(Related: Thought, May)
"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries."
- Hugh Mackay
(Related: Change, People, Life, Chance, Possibilities)
"The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility."
- Rachel Maddow
(Related: Care, Responsibility)
"People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol."
- John Mahoney
(Related: People, America, Reason, Symbol)
"We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Land, Solution)
"I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Church, Grace, Leaders)
"With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Decision, Grace, Respect, State)
"If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Leading, World)
"I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals."
- Hermann Maier
"I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Race, Will)
"It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Day, Now, Race, Rest)
"It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Fun, Ski, Want)
"There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Pressure, Race, Ski, Winter)
"When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Fight, Race, World)
"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
- Paul de Man
(Related: Fashion, Fire)
"A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't."
- Joe Manchin
(Related: Life, Income, Race)
"Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France."
- Peter Mandelson
(Related: Europe, France, Identity, Mind, Now)
"We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization."
- Peter Mandelson
(Related: Strength, Globalization, Unity)
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."
- Og Mandino
(Related: Manners)
"I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful."
- Barry Manilow
(Related: Music, Heart, Jokes, Race, Racing, Years)
"There, but for the grace of God, goes God."
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
(Related: God, Grace)
"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Habit, Day)
"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Manners, Morals)
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Reward, Sunset, Yesterday)
"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Education, Men, Balance)
"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Schools)
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Truth, Greatness, Forget, Man, Will)
"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Determination, Content, Right, Will)
"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Evil, Quarrel)
"If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Men, Evil)
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Victory, Humanity)
"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Education, Safety)
"It is well to think well; it is divine to act well."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Act)
"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Nothing)
"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Day, End, Gain, Reading, Will)
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Desire, Inspiring)
"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Being)
"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Books, Children, Man, Right, Windows)
"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Power, Knowledge)
"Evil and good are God's right hand and left."
- Horace Mann
(Related: God, Evil, Right)
"Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Reward, Sunset)
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Education, Quality, Enjoyment, Infinite, Quantity)
"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Life, Death, Fear, Benevolence, Generosity, Liberality, Pride)
"Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Truth, Paradise, Light)
"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Truth, Greatness, Will)
"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Pity)
"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Money, Time, Act, Dishonesty, May)
"When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Heart, Fear, Grief, Needs, Punishment, Repentance, Tears)
"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Desire, Inspiring)
"What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars."
- Murray Gell Mann
(Related: Building, Relationships, Running, Universe)
"The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket."
- Thomas E. Mann
(Related: Party, Voting, Years)
"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Positive, Act, Aggression, Endurance)
"Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics."
- Preston Manning
(Related: Legal, Society, People, Gender, Language, Race)
"The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators."
- Nigel Mansell
(Related: Time, Thought, Practice, Race, Weekend)
"The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive."
- Nigel Mansell
(Related: People, Action, First, Quick, Race, Will)
"Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors."
- Nigel Mansell
(Related: Fans, Media, Race, Will)
"Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with."
- Nigel Mansell
(Related: Fitness, People, First, Play, Race, Racing, Will)
"We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold."
- Ray Manzarek
(Related: Grace, Singing)
"Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement."
- Josie Maran
(Related: Challenge, Trying)
"A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace."
- Walter de La Mare
(Related: Dream, Day, Light, May, Waking)
"We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve."
- Rob Mariano
(Related: People, Deals, Fun, Race)
"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul."
- Teena Marie
(Related: Soul, Artist, Day, End, Race, Skin)
"I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in."
- Sterling Marlin
(Related: Car, Pretty, Race)
"It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath."
- Sterling Marlin
(Related: Pretty, Race)
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Progress, Race)
"Speed Racer is good to cut your teeth on, but if anyone has not seen Akira, go get it."
- James Marsters
"But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Nature, Women, Love, Applause, Encouragement, Grace, Help)
"Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes."
- Felix Marti-Ibanez
(Related: Life, Time, Grace, Value)
"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."
- Felix Marti-Ibanez
(Related: Land, Water)
"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
- Abraham Maslow
(Related: Men, Women, Selling, Race)
"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union."
- George Mason
(Related: Strength, states, Trade, Value, Weakness)
"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
- George Mason
(Related: Mankind, states, Trade)
"Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth."
- Marlee Matlin
(Related: Corporate, Hollywood, Office, Project, Youth)
"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Heart, Opinion, Race, Right)
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Beauty, Grace)
"Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain."
- Julian May
(Related: Science, Fiction, Race, Will, Wonder)
"It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for."
- Benjamin E. Mays
(Related: Disgrace, Stars)
"I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media."
- Scott McCallum
(Related: Media, Now, Public, Will)
"When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Instinct)
"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: Work, Identity, Labor, Man)
"The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Will, Years)
"If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Race, Running, Want)
"The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman."
- Hattie McDaniel
(Related: Actions, Man, Race, Woman)
"I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry."
- Hattie McDaniel
(Related: Hope, Credit, Race)
"It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right."
- Ian McDiarmid
(Related: Right)
"I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do."
- Mary McDonnell
(Related: Power, Character, Grace)
"The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it."
- Bryant H. McGill
(Related: Belief, Actions, Intentions)
"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."
- Phyllis McGinley
(Related: Gossip, Lovers, Race, Scandal)
"I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'"
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Idea, Running, Trouble)
"Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace."
- Barry McGuire
(Related: Forget, Grace, Hate)
"I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning."
- Patrick McHenry
(Related: Thought, People, Winning, Chance, Race)
"There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever."
- Jim McKay
(Related: People, Gender, Open, Race)