Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gina Carano

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.

Gillian Flynn

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

Gillian Flynn

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

Gib Lewis

I am filled with humidity.

Gianfranco Fini

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore

Harold Nicolson

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Harold Pinter

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

James D. Watson

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

James Broughton

Follow your own weird.

James Bovard

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Jackie Chan

Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humility has the toughest hide.

Franklin Pierce

But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Franklin Pierce

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Frantz Fanon

I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

Franz Grillparzer

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Frank Zappa

People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble.

Frank Zappa

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

Jim Caviezel

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

Jim Courier

One of Nadal’s strengths is that he’s so humble, that he’s surprised at what he has achieved, and that he has never bought into his greatness.

Jewel

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

Jerry Springer

You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

Jeremy Taylor

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

Jeremy Taylor

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

Jennifer Stone

One parody is worth a thousand polemics ...

Jemima Kirke

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.