Race Quotes - Page 184

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in the life's race.

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

Life is a race; desire the goal.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

The forces of internationalism, humanism and solidarity will have to be victorious, or soon there will be nothing left of the human race.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.