Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jones Very

The advance, which the human mind had made towards civilization, prevented Virgil from making a like impression on his own age.

Joanna Lumley

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Merrick had a sense of humor and could joke about his condition.

Merely writing about him was unusual, but writing a profile, as if he were a human being, was groundbreaking.

Irene Khan

Mexico has taken a very strong and positive stand on human rights issues internationally but there is not the same intensity ... domestically,

Kofi Annan

Mexico has made some strides (on human rights) ... but there is still some way to go,

Who knows? I just know that he's a very big human being.

We must show humility and be humble, ... And we must turn away from ways that are unpleasing to God.

Thornton Wilder

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Jay Leno

My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

Carla Gugino

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

Buzz Aldrin

Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

Buzz Aldrin

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

James Hillman

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

James E. Faust

The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

Jaron Lanier

I'm an advocate of human nature.

Jared Leto

I think people would be surprised by his [Alessandro Michele] humility.

Jared Leto

A little ego can be quite entertaining. But [Alessandro Michele is] a very humble, gentle, kind person. And I think that his humanity would probably surprise a lot of people, because he's so confident and bold in the choices that he makes.

Janet Evanovich

-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

Janet Evanovich

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

Jane Porter

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

Ernestine Rose

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

Ernest Renan

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Ernest Dimnet

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

Fulton J. Sheen

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Fulton J. Sheen

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Fulton J. Sheen

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Francois Rabelais

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

Francois Rabelais

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

Christopher Hitchens

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.