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.

Alice Walker

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

Alice James

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the 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.

Andie MacDowell

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

Alphonsus Liguori

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

Alphonsus Liguori

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Alphonsus Liguori

You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

Anna Pavlova

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Alfred Hitchcock

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility

Alfred Adler

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Angela Carter

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Andrew Jackson

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Anthony Burgess

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Anthony Bourdain

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.