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

John Roberts

the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent.

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

Craig Carpenter

We took our CEO, who is not a technologist, through the new setup wizard with no problem. It was the perfect test case.

Mel Kiper

I think that makes a lot of sense. For the type of scheme they play, he would be perfect for what they need.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Richard Owen

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Richard Jenkins

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Richelle Mead

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

William S. Burroughs

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

William J. H. Boetcker

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

Will Cuppy

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,

Richard Rorty

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

William Blake

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.