Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

There will probably be some job loss, but I think it will be less than what people think. There is always a need for more talent and human intervention even when tasks are automated.

This is an uprising of a humiliated and impoverished nation.

Richard Moe

This is the first time we have done anything on this scale. The human needs come first, but at the same time these people need places to come back to.

This is something that most humans can relate to -- think of how much time and money we spend on our looks and status long after we have established stable relationships.

Willa Cather

The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change.

Robert Jackson

This doesn't take into consideration the human mind knowing how to get there.

Jesse Williams

That's why the role that I have on 'Grey's Anatomy' is important to me, because it's a human being. He doesn't have to wear race on his sleeve; he doesn't even have to talk about it. We just lead by our actions.

Tim Reynolds

That's kind of my own unusual sense of humor.

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

Margaret Chan

A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.

The modern human communicates better with his mouse than with his mouth.

You're talking about transgenic organisms. And there's a lot of resistance to that in the human population.

Red McCombs

You've humiliated all suite attendants with your performance tonight!" ()

You sneak a peek at the what-ifs. It's human nature.

You need to release, to humble yourself, and realize that you have things in your life you need to take to God.

Alice McDermott

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

Apollonius of Tyana

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

You must understand in all humility that you are at the mercy of the weather,

Brett Favre

I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

Arthur Conan Doyle

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Ben Okri

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Bahman Ghobadi

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.

We are taking the human out of the loop completely.

Baruch Spinoza

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Barbara Mertz

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.