Famous Quotes & Sayings

Freida Pinto

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

Freya Stark

All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.

Freya Stark

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

Julie Kagawa

Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?

Joyce Brothers

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

Julian Simon

Human beings create more than they destroy.

Jules Renard

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

Jules Renard

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

Juan Manuel Santos

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Joshua Lederberg

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Josh Billings

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

Josh Billings

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Karl Barth

Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

Oscar Wilde

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Kathy Acker

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Kanye West

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Kami Garcia

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

Kanye West

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

Judy Garland

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Paul Theroux

When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You think you have problems. You leave the States and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. They have nothing to eat, they have no water, they have no shelter, they have a terrible government. So you realize we complain about the government, we complain about food, whatever it is, and go somewhere else and you think, "Now I realize," you say, "Why people want to come to America."

Paul Krassner

People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they've accepted whatever truth is embedded in your humor.

Paul Krassner

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

Paul Klee

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

Paul DePodesta

We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty

Paul Dirac

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

Maggie Stiefvater

Thery're both iron, isn't that funny?" "Funny haha or funny strange?" James handed them back to me "Funny 'occult'" "Ah. Funny strange" James looked at me sternly, "Don't start that. I'm supposed to be the humorous one

Macklemore

I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.

Haruki Murakami

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Harlan Ellison

I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Greg Behrendt

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.