Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?

Cassandra Clare

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

Cassandra Clare

So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that." "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it." "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.

Murray Gell-Mann

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

Moby

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

Moby

I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.

Kirk Douglas

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

Kenny Anderson

When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

Kathie Lee Gifford

... humility + humor = humanity.

Kathleen Norris

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

Karl Marx

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Kailash Satyarthi

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

Kailash Satyarthi

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery

Julia Cameron

The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

Joseph Joubert

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

Myles Munroe

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the area of their gifting.

Molly Ivins

As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

Molly Ivins

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.

Milton Berle

It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.

Milton Friedman

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

J. K. Rowling

Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.

J. K. Rowling

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

J. K. Rowling

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

J. K. Rowling

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

J. K. Rowling

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Greg Jackson

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Greg Lake

Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.