Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peggy Noonan

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

Peg Bracken

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

Paulo Coelho

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Paulo Coelho

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Marisha Pessl

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

Marianne Moore

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Megan McCafferty

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

Leslie Nielsen

You could respond to it on a very human basis.

Tim White

The key here is the sequences. It's about a mile thickness of rocks in the Middle Awash and in it we can see all three phases of human evolution.

The justice system is a human system and it is fallible.

The ultimate test of whether you posses a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you you don't.

These are human beings, that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact. As a human family, we do a lot better when we don't permit one to be destroyed.

These are human beings; that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact.

Nikola Tesla

If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation,

N. T. Wright

God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place through the human beings that reflect His image. That is central to the notion of being made in God’s image. He has enlisted us to act as His stewards in the project of creation. So the objection about us trying to build God’s kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one’s head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers.

N. T. Wright

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

N. T. Wright

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

Johnny Giles

Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity

John Ruskin

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

John Polkinghorne

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.

Socrates

How many are the things I can do without!

Jimmy Iovine

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

Lou Reed

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

Lloyd Alexander

Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography .

Manuel Puig

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Madeleine L'Engle

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

Madeleine L'Engle

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

John Gay

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

John Frankenheimer

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.