Quotes about hum
humility proud damn
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that. Benjamin Franklin
humanity incentives today
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history. Ben Bernanke
humans
I'm human, just like anybody else. Ben Affleck
humankind intelligence sports
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. Joseph Chilton Pearce
human nature quietly sit
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story? Evangeline Lilly
humanity man sure theory
I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined. Lee Kuan Yew
human religion societies whether
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
human lovely turn wonderful
It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being. Elton John
humor people york
The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know? Elaine Stritch
human next
It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.
humor problem satisfied surprise work
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing. Kara Walker
human
I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings. Jim Fowler
humble community democracy
As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be. Jane Addams
humility deceit appearance
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. Jane Austen
humble prosperity difficult
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
human-nature humans ups-and-downs
That's human nature - the ups and downs. Jami Gertz
humble average oil
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. James Wolcott
humble innovation vision
You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better. Jason Calacanis
humorous beer bottles
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer. Janis Joplin
humor laughing interviews
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better. Barbara Walters
humorous sarcasm doe
Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate. Arthur Conan Doyle
humorous biblical sarcasm
He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.
humorous sarcasm doctors
The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
humorous sarcasm past
The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.
humorous sarcasm thinking
"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."
humorous sarcasm museums
"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."
humorous sarcasm italian
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .
humorous mean sarcasm
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
humorous sarcasm race
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
humorous athlete sarcasm
One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!
humorous sarcasm thinking
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.
humorous sarcasm wings
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?
humorous drinking mean
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.