Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank B. Kellogg

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

George Clooney

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

John Burdett

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

John Bunyan

Humility is the light of the understanding.

John Bunyan

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

Joel Osteen

It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Joe Abercrombie

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

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.

Lisa Kleypas

Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.

Lisa Guerrero

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lionel Trilling

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

Lion Feuchtwanger

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Linus Torvalds

So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous...

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.