Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.

Alexander Hamilton

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

When you are as a human being in a survival mode, order disappears,

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adolf Hitler

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

Adam Sandler

It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

Adam Clarke

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Adam Brody

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Abraham Lincoln

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble ...

Abraham Lincoln

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

Annalee Newitz

I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

Angus Young

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

Ani Difranco

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

Andy Grammer

I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.

Andrew Murray

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

Andrew Murray

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Andrew Murray

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

Andrew Murray

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Andrew Murray

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

Andrew Murray

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Andrew Murray

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Amy Lowell

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Allen Klein

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.