Famous Quotes & Sayings

Merrick had a sense of humor and could joke about his condition.

Merely writing about him was unusual, but writing a profile, as if he were a human being, was groundbreaking.

Irene Khan

Mexico has taken a very strong and positive stand on human rights issues internationally but there is not the same intensity ... domestically,

Kofi Annan

Mexico has made some strides (on human rights) ... but there is still some way to go,

Who knows? I just know that he's a very big human being.

We have all been moved by the human tragedies that have occurred to our neighbours in the southern United States.

We have all been humbled by Hurricane Katrina,

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

Maurice Maeterlinck

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

Rosecrans Baldwin

To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Tom Renney

We humiliated ourselves. We embarrassed ourselves. I don't think I have to say much more.

We must show humility and be humble, ... And we must turn away from ways that are unpleasing to God.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

William Shakespeare

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

We have a strong spirit and humility in the team.

Robert Green Ingersoll

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Victor Ponta

Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

Victor Ponta

Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.

We are humbled by the other nominees in this category. You have made this year one of the most breathtaking and stunning maverick years in American cinema.

Right now, human life is paramount so I'm concentrating all my power on getting out people who want to leave,

Michael Griffin

Returning to the moon and sustaining a presence there will demonstrate humans can survive on another world.

Vanna Bonta

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Sathya Baba

My task is the spiritual regeneration of Humanity through Truth and Love.

Vince Vaughn

My sense of humor has served me well,

Joseph Jarman

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Octavio Paz

Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Megan Fox

I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.

I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.

Patricia Schroeder

I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.