Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Casals

To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.

P. J. O'Rourke

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

Plato

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Philip Zimbardo

Mama, humanity is my business.

Paulo Freire

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

Paulo Freire

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Phil Keoghan

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Lee Atwater

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Ledisi

Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

Lee Ann Womack

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.

LeBron James

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

LeBron James

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Lana Turner

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

Laini Taylor

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Lisa Kristine

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

John Stuart Mill

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

John Selden

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

John Selden

Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

John Ratzenberger

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola...

James Lee Burke

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

James Jeans

Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

James Joyce

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

James Joyce

But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..

James Richardson

Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.

James Russell Lowell

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

James Russell Lowell

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

James Russell Lowell

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

James Goldsmith

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

James Hansen

If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target CO₂ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.

James F. Cooper

The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

Laurence Sterne

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.