Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Nikki Sixx

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

Gore Vidal

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Frank Lowy

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.

Bruce Nauman

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.

Samuel Butler

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Estelle Parsons

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

Erich Maria Remarque

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

Niels Arden Oplev

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

Niels Arden Oplev

I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene.

Jeff Foxworthy

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

There's nothing like watching Dr. Oz and working out at the same time; you feel like you're the healthiest human being on the planet.

Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.

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.

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

Jerome K. Jerome

Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Baruch Spinoza

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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.