Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you travel 11 months a year - from one dangerous or isolated situation to the next - if you live in hotels, and every relationship with another human being is a two-week relationship, the only other people who have any idea what you're going through or how strung out you are are other photographers.

Joss Whedon

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

If the Martians can translate this and interpret it, it will give them an interesting view of human nature.

Alejandro Fernandez

It has made it possible for Human Resources to provide quality service in all of our locations.

Ian Wilmut

I think now to contemplate using our present technique with humans would be quite inhuman,

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

Ramez Naam

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

If there are human rights, we have right to our land. The redistribution of land must be speeded up.

Rosa Parks

if she could not survive as humble and as sweet as she was in a segregated society ? nobody could survive.

Carolyn See

If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.

Jennifer Jones

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Ingmar Bergman

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Jack Lemmon

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Jack Kirby

An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.

Jack Kirby

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

J. Irwin Miller

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

J. I. Packer

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

J. I. Packer

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

J. I. Packer

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

Isabelle Adjani

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

Jack London

They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

Jack Benny

I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.

J. C. Watts

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

J. C. Ryle

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

J. C. Ryle

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

J. C. Ryle

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

J. C. Ryle

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

J. C. Ryle

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.

A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.

If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.

Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God

Isaac Watts

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.