Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Stewart

Thus, I've created humour.

Jon Stewart

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.

Jon Stewart

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

Jon Miller

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

Joyce Carol Oates

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Katha Pollitt

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

Ovid

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Patton Oswalt

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

Peter Greenaway

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

Periander

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

Paul Tudor Jones

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

Meher Baba

One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

Mary Oliver

Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

Mary Oliver

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Martin Buber

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Martin Buber

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

Martin Buber

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

Martin Amis

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Pope Benedict XVI

Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

Pope Benedict XVI

The goods of creation belong to humanity as a whole. Yet the current pace of environmental exploitation is seriously endangering the supply of certain natural resources not only for the present generation, but above all for generations to come.

Pope Benedict XVI

The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

Pope John Paul II

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

Pope John Paul II

Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

Pope John Paul II

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Pindar

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

Pierre Charron

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

Philippe Starck

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

Philippe Starck

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

Philippe Starck

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Philippe Halsman

In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

Pope Francis

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!