Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Brown

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

David Mamet

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

David Attenborough

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

Dave Allison

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

Davy Jones

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

David Livingstone

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

Coretta Scott King

Violence diminishes our humanity.

Confucius

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

Confucius

What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.

Confucius

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

Confucius

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Confucius

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Andre Leon Talley

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

Andre Malraux

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

Andy Murray

We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him.

Andrew Davies

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Ambrose Bierce

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Ambrose Bierce

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Anthony Kennedy

When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

Anthony Hopkins

I've got a great sense of humor.

Alice Walker

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

Alice James

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

Andy Pettitte

I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.

Anna Pavlova

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Alfred Hitchcock

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility

Alfred Adler

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Angela Carter

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Andrew Jackson

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Anthony Burgess

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.