Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

D. H. Lawrence

We are so conceited and so unproud.

D. H. Lawrence

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Curly Howard

I tried to think but nothing happened!

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

William Shakespeare

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

We have a strong spirit and humility in the team.

Abbas Kiarostami

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

A. E. Housman

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

A. E. Housman

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

James Cameron

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Agatha Christie

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

Colm Meaney

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Daphne Guinness

Human beings all mimic each other.

William Shakespeare

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

John Sloan

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

Neil Harbisson

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Moon Unit Zappa

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Alexandre Dumas

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

Alexandre Dumas

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

Jane Goodall

If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.

Jane Goodall

I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.

Jamie Campbell Bower

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

Ken Stott

I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.

Kristin Gore

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Koren Zailckas

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Agnes Repplier

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

Agnes Repplier

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.