Famous Quotes & Sayings

Park Chan-wook

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

Park Chan-wook

If you are watching my films and wondering, am I missing humorous speak because I'm not Korean? Am I missing out? You don't have to worry, because you're only missing probably about a few cents worth out of your ticket price.

Park Chan-wook

In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.

Paris Hilton

I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

Lillie Langtry

A complete transformation seemed to have place in my life overnight. It was quite staggering, and thenceforward visitors and invitations continued to pour in daily until they became a source of grievance to our landlady, who was obliged to engage an extra servant to respond to the battering of powdered footmen on her humble and somewhat flimsy door.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

Les Aspin

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

Lea Michele

I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.

Laurence J. Peter

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Leigh Hunt

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Lajos Kossuth

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

L. Neil Smith

Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

Ken Follett

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Ken Blanchard

Take yourself seriously but take yourself lightly.

Ken Blanchard

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

Ken Blanchard

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Oscar Levant

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Omar Suleiman

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

Oliver Goldsmith

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Okky Madasari

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Marc Anthony

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

Kevin Myers

It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

Kathryn Lasky

To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius

Margaret Thatcher

[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

Margaret Chan

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Mark Twain

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

serious human rights shortcomings in the structure of the trial.

At the same time, I think it's human nature, over 162 games, every once in a while, a player will get upset, ... But it can't be about that.

James Gray

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

Elizabeth Taylor

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

B. C. Forbes

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...