Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

William Maxwell

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

William McDonough

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

Vance Havner

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

W. S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

Saint Francis de Sales

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Joseph Addison

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

Joseph Addison

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Anders Rasmussen

It is positive that the (EU) Commission is trying to reduce the short-term impact by proposing to let the blocked textiles into the market,

Jeff Samardzija

I thought we blocked exceptionally well. We hurt them with screen passes and every time we had three or four guys leading the way.

Jerry Bailey

I didn't get to a spot as early as I needed to. I got blocked and had nowhere to go. I had a feeling it was going to be too little too late.

Billy Donovan

Our blocks in the Miami game came the right way. They came with our big guys playing good post defense, moving their feet. When someone from Miami committed to shooting the basketball, most of our blocked shots were on the ball.

Aftab Sherpao

Right now people are angry. They are wailing and crying. Some of them have blocked roads in the town and we are trying to control the situation.

Darryl Drake

If you watched Justin Gage and watched how he blocked (last Sunday), several of those big runs Thomas (Jones) had, he's (Gage) on the edge doing what he does, being a tremendous blocker.

John Sheridan

In a key provision of the Energy Policy Act, Congress clearly intends to provide a federal remedy for certain energy projects that are being blocked by an individual state.

Jim Bowden

In the future, a player that has surgery should be blocked from participating in the Classic the following year.

Woody Allen

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Martha Minnich

I've seen just about all one could see. It never get any easier, but it remains just as rewarding each time.

Barry Steinhardt

Is it a step forward? Yes. Is it foolproof? That remains to be proven.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.