Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Bond

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

Edward Bond

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Edward Albee

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake...

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

Eckhart Tolle

You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human.

Eckhart Tolle

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is always the secure who are humble.

Holly Hunter

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

Hermann Hesse

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Hermann Hesse

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Henri Nouwen

Community is where humility and glory touch.

Heidi Montag

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

Heidi Julavits

I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Henry Rollins

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

Heinrich Heine

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

Hilaire Belloc

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is God's medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are proud of their humility.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Henry Ward Beecher

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Henry Clay

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Harlan Ellison

I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Greg Behrendt

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.