Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Rachel Platten

Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Thomas More

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

Johnny Cash

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

John Donne

I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

C. S. Lewis

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

C. S. Lewis

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

C. S. Lewis

If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

C. S. Lewis

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

C. S. Lewis

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Bill Vaughan

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

Arlen Specter

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

William Shatner

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

Sebastian Horsley

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

Lily Chatterjee

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

William Penn

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.