Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

Leo Tolstoy

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Leo Tolstoy

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Leo Hindery

A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

Lee Strasberg

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Lawrence Kasdan

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Lady Gaga

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Lady Gaga

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Lew Wallace

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Leonard Bernstein

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.

Joyce Meyer

Humble people ask for help.

Joseph Stiglitz

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

Monica Baldwin

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Molly Sims

I think it's important to come from a humble place.

Mira Nair

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

Mike Judge

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Mike Harding

When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.

Mike Harding

... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.

Mike Harding

Economics, n.: Economics is the study of the value and meaning of J. K. Galbraith ...

Mike Harding

Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.

Mike Harding

Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

Mike Harding

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

Mike Harding

The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.

Mike Harding

The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.

Mike Harding

The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.

Pearl S. Buck

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

Peace Pilgrim

Walk with me, but don't follow me blindly. Hold fast to the truth, not to my garments. My body is merely a clay structure; today it is here, tomorrow it shall be gone. If you attach yourself to me today, what are you going to do tomorrow when I am not with you? Attach yourself to God, attach yourself to humanity, only then will you be closer to me.

Peter V. Brett

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

Peter Ustinov

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.