Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Spacey

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

Kenneth Clark

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I do think women generally are more humble.

Khaled Hosseini

I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

Khalil Gibran

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Kerry Packer

Never complain, never explain personal motto of

Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Helen Fisher

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

Henry George

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Hector Berlioz

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Henry David Thoreau

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Henry Ford

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Mahatma Gandhi

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

Johannes Tauler

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

John Adams

Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Jean Cocteau

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

George Carlin

One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.

George Carlin

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

George Carlin

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

George Carlin

If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

George Carlin

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.