Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Ted Turner

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Getting people on the right medications and keeping them on it is important. Mentally ill people tend to be non-medication compliant. It is just human nature that when you feel better you go off your medication.

Frankly, from a human rights perspective, that raises concerns,

From a human point of view, the more we know, the better off we'll be. In a region that is susceptible to droughts, wise water use and land management are a necessity.

Eddie Vedder

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

Elinor Glyn

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Dizzy Dean

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

Steve Sabol

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

Dave Pelzer

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

David Nicholls

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

Abraham Lincoln

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Abraham Lincoln

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

Abraham Lincoln

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

Kari Matchett

We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

Kurt Braunohler

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

Jules Verne

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

Jasper Johns

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Julian Casablancas

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

Carol Bartz

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Imagination is the most important thing the human mind has.

Constance Bennett

I'm a lot more sartorial than thespian. They come to see me and go out humming the costumes.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.