Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

What kind of person would use humans as shields?

Germaine Greer

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Henry Cloud

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

Deb Caletti

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

Chris Pine

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

Chris Pine

What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?

Madonna Ciccone

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

Eileen Brennan

If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

Edward Hirsch

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

Edward Hirsch

I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.

Elizabeth McCracken

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

Elizabeth McCracken

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

Fatty Arbuckle

I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

Allen West

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

Hugh Grant

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

Gary Hume

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

Graham Moore

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.

Grace Park

When I started, I was told that, for all intents and purposes, I was playing a human, which made it easier. Until they told me, 'Grace, you're a Cylon, she wouldn't do that.' And later, I learned that Cylons are actually more human than humans. This has been an ongoing exploration.

We're still very interested in seeing the result of the CDC's study of the human impact.

Blake Shelton

Cee Lo is the coolest human being I have ever met in my life.