Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Craig Venter

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

Craig Venter

It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.

Bob Newhart

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

Barbara Jordan

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Kenneth R. Miller

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

Amy Stephens

We didn't buckle down when we needed to get over the hump late in the game.

Helen Clark

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

Saina Nehwal

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Gad Elmaleh

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

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 ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.