Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Seyfried

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Ann Beattie

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

Anjelica Huston

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Ann Aguirre

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

Chuck Palahniuk

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

Chubby Checker

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

Christopher Morley

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Christopher Moore

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Anselm of Canterbury

Disasters teach us humility.

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Anne Bronte

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

Anne Bronte

Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

Ann Veneman

Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.

Andrew Carnegie

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Amy Carmichael

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Anna Kendrick

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Amy Chua

Be modest, be humble, be simple,

Amy Chua

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

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.