Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Spike Lee

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Neale Donald Walsch

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

Nate Berkus

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Joseph Addison

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Joseph Addison

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Jose Saramago

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

William Blake

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Chasity Rutjens

I just want to make sure it lasts me the rest of my life so I don't have to return to work.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Jonathan Tropper

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

Kenneth H. Cooper

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Kelley Armstrong

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

Jonathan Swift

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.