Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Babbitt

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

His humour is very much like his movies, one-liners, fast, off-the-cuff stuff. He's always been like that.

Michael Rose

He writes music that spins itself out indefatigably. There's a wonderful strain of humor there. It's quirky, often bizarre, there's an irreducible strangeness to his style. It's unlike any music I've ever heard.

Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers.

Herbie Hancock

But it's all part of the humanistic approach. Humanism amid the machines, you know?

Joshua Bell

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

Hannah More

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Greg Graffin

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

Glenn McGrath

The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

John Updike

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

Ramez Naam

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

If there are human rights, we have right to our land. The redistribution of land must be speeded up.

Rosa Parks

if she could not survive as humble and as sweet as she was in a segregated society ? nobody could survive.

I just think what we are seeing here is a terrible human tragedy,

I'll just find humor in it and let people be people.

Peter Stormare

I have the luxury of being a little boy, ... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

He steps up in big games. That's the thing about him, he's a level-headed kid, humble kid, and he works hard. He doesn't need the limelight, he just wants to go play.

How could you not? I do have a sense of humor.

Mike Sweeney

He's probably the most positive human being I've ever met,

Ingmar Bergman

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Jack Lemmon

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Jack Kirby

An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.

Jack Kirby

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

J. Irwin Miller

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

J. I. Packer

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

J. I. Packer

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

J. I. Packer

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

Mack Brown

I told him he was the luckiest human being in the world,

It was a combination of technical and human intelligence that led us to him.

It was one of those situations where you have instincts as a reporter, and instincts as a human being. There are times when you are not thinking of stories, you are thinking of people's safety.