Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Burns

From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

George Bernard Shaw

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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.

Lydia Child

Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

The most important thing was for them to see him as a human being.

Rita Ora

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.

Dito Montiel

Some people have this crazy talent that makes you tap into a human side as well, even with all their fame.

So they're going to downplay Taiwan, they're going to downplay human rights.

Jill Scott

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

Ridley Scott

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

Caitlin Moran

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Bill Bradley

I've always said that running for president requires a mixture of humility and confidence,

Daniel Woodrell

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

It was the token move. We had a human chain.

Charles Davis

It was tough, ... It teaches you a lot -- a lot of humility. You're humbled real quick.

It was an unfortunate but very human error.

Venus Williams

The season is very long. It's pretty challenging to have to play year after year, for 10 months a year, for a human -- not a machine. You just have to watch out for yourself.

The seconds you're saving by speeding or going round someone aren't worth a human life.

The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

The big question is why are humans so different?