Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Evanovich

-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

Janet Evanovich

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

Jane Porter

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

Ernestine Rose

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

Ernest Renan

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Ernest Dimnet

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

Cassandra Clare

Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

Cassandra Clare

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

Cassandra Clare

Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat.

Cassandra Clare

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

Cassandra Clare

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

Cassandra Clare

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

Kylie Jenner

I still feel insecure all the time. I feel like it's just a part of being a human being... I just learned normal is very boring.

Kirsten Vangsness

I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum physics fascinating, so I like to write about that, and I like things that make me laugh.

John Burnside

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

Jacob Riis

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Evan Sayet

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

Christopher Hitchens

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

Jeremy Rifkin

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

Jenny Lawson

It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

Glenda Jackson

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

Harry Stack Sullivan

All of us are much more human than otherwise

Hank Johnson

Don't let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

Frank Herbert

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Harold B. Lee

Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

Jesse Ventura

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Jay Leno

My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

Christopher Hitchens

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

Cassandra Clare

Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.