Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Aberjhani

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

Aberjhani

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

A. N. Wilson

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

A. R. Rahman

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

Roxane Gay

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

Abbas Kiarostami

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

A. E. Housman

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

A. E. Housman

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

James Cameron

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Agatha Christie

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

Adam Hochschild

All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.

Achim Steiner

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,

Abraham Cahan

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cowley

Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Abraham Maslow

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

Abraham Maslow

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Abraham Lincoln

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...

Alison Jackson

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Anatoly Karpov

To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Betty White

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

Dan Ariely

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

Anne Bancroft

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

Bob Newhart

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

Salman Rushdie

wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios.

Kailash Satyarthi

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.