Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Simmons

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Colm Meaney

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Daphne Guinness

Human beings all mimic each other.

Corrie Ten Boom

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

Corrie Ten Boom

If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

Cornel West

The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.

Clifford Geertz

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

E. W. Howe

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

E. W. Howe

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

Dwyane Wade

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

Dwight L. Moody

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

We should treat the undocumented workers like human beings.

Stephen Hawking

Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big enough for a human or even a spaceship to enter.

Stephen Hawking

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Azzedine Alaia

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

Amy Bloom

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

Allison Tolman

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

Brendan Myers

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

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

Bob Ross

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

Banks

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

Banks

Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Antony Gormley

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo.

What kind of person would use humans as shields?

We're not only providing for the Payson Humane Society, but we're keeping tons and tons and tons of recyclables out of our landfills.

Marley Shelton

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless.

Orson Scott Card

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Paul Simon

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.