Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sexton

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

Anne Rice

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

Andrew Sullivan

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

Andre Leon Talley

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

Andre Malraux

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

Andy Murray

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.

Andy Murray

We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him.

Andrew Davies

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Ambrose Bierce

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Ambrose Bierce

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Anthony Kennedy

When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

Anthony Hopkins

I've got a great sense of humor.

Abraham Lincoln

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble ...

Abraham Lincoln

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

Annalee Newitz

I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

Angus Young

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

Ani Difranco

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

Andy Grammer

I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.

Andrew Murray

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

Andrew Murray

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Andrew Murray

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

Andrew Murray

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Andrew Murray

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

Andrew Murray

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Andrew Murray

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Amy Lowell

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Allen Klein

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Allen Klein

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Allen Klein

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.