Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive James

Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

Clive James

Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.

Clive James

In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.

Clive James

Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.

E. B. White

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

Douglas Coupland

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Douglas Coupland

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Donald Trump

We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.

Dwight L. Moody

The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.

Dwight L. Moody

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

Dwight L. Moody

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.

Dan Brown

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

David Mamet

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

David Attenborough

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

Dave Allison

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

Davy Jones

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

David Livingstone

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

Coretta Scott King

Violence diminishes our humanity.

Confucius

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

Confucius

What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.

Confucius

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

Confucius

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Confucius

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Dana Snyder

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

Dallas Willard

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

Dallas Willard

And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

David Lindsay-Abaire

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

Dalai Lama

The world will be saved by the western woman.

Dalai Lama

Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

Diogenes

I am looking for a human.

Desmond Tutu

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

Desmond Tutu

And every human being is precious.

Deborah Ann Woll

I think what matures us is time, not necessarily our physical bodies. So I think she can probably change as much as human would in the timespan of the show. However, I do think as a human you reach a point where there's a certain amount of humility and acceptance of life and its consequences when you see your own body change and age, and the pounds come or the wrinkles come.