Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

George Bernard Shaw

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

Gary Larson

I never liked my own species.

Frederick William Robertson

A heart renewed--a loving heart--a penitent and humble heart--a heart broken and contrite, purified by love--that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man.

Freeman Dyson

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

Freeman Dyson

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Fred Brooks

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

Fred Brooks

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

Franz Kafka

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Franz Kafka

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Eoin Colfer

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Gary Player

I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Fred Allen

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Fred Allen

A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

George Hickenlooper

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

George Horace Lorimer

It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.

Christina Rossetti

The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

George W. Bush

It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

George W. Bush

The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.

George W. Bush

It's my first trip as president of the United States.

George W. Bush

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

George W. Bush

I read the newspaper.

George W. Bush

Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

George W. Bush

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

George W. Bush

This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the "evil empire" may have passed, evil still remains.

George W. Bush

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.