Famous Quotes & Sayings

Above all nations is humanity,

Goran Persson

We must make working life more human.

Golda Meir

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

Golda Meir

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Golda Meir

One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.

Gerald Durrell

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Ignatius of Loyola

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

Ignatius of Loyola

There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.

Ignatius of Loyola

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

Ignatius of Loyola

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

Hugo Ball

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

Hosea Ballou

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Hosea Ballou

Humanity , in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

Hosea Ballou

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Horace

Humble things become the humble.

Horace

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Guy Finley

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

He's up to having a life like a normal human being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Human beings, as species, have no more value than slugs.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

Max von Sydow

Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

Bob Hill

He's a pretty competitive human being and he's got a lot of pride. I talk to them about personal and professional pride a lot, and he's got a lot of that.

He's a human being. It could have been avoided.

Mike McCurry

He's a human being and he has human reaction when he reads stuff like that, sure." ()

William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

George Burns

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

George Burns

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.