Famous Quotes & Sayings

If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

James Keller

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

Laura Schlessinger

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Lee Myung-bak

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

Susanne Bier

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late

Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

To you, it's a human being. To them, it's not. To them, it's income. It's a way of making money.

Gregory Hines

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

George Foreman

I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

Tom Rath

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

Tucker Max

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

Tacitus

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Terence

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

Sue Monk Kidd

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

William Boyd

Human beings are interested in the human condition.

A. S. Byatt

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no, all humans are equal, but not all cultures are equal.

Ben Carson

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Bill Callahan

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.

Tyler, The Creator

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

Amy Stephens

We didn't buckle down when we needed to get over the hump late in the game.

Helen Clark

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

Saina Nehwal

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Gad Elmaleh

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.