#race

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. ↗

— Bess Truman

#against #any #artistic #because #denies

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world. ↗

— Ted Turner

#gave #had #half #hands #honest

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States. ↗

— Jacques Villeneuve

#knew #races #states #stayed #win

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to be endowed with thought. ↗

— Jean Calvin

#god #grace #intellect #soul #faith

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. ↗

— Virgil

#air #back #climb #dark #day

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#ignorance #our #race #scientific #survived

Contraception doesn't define a woman. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#define #woman

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#consumed #earned #every #experience #grace

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#heroes #known #long #nation #produced