Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

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!

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Trip Hawkins

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

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.

Woody Allen

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

Woody Allen

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

Will Durant

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Sarah Silverman

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Richard Schickel

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Trey Parker

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Vance Havner

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

Sarah Kane

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Sandra Bernhard

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

William Howard Taft

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Wayne Dyer

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Wendy Wasserstein

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Wendy Wasserstein

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Wentworth Miller

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Wale

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie

Samuel Richardson

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Samuel Richardson

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Samuel Richardson

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Samuel Hahnemann

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Samuel Goldwyn

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

Samuel Beckett

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Rudolf Steiner

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.