Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

Robinson Jeffers

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Robin Williams

Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

Torquato Tasso

O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.

Tori Spelling

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

Vince Staples

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

Vince Lombardi

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Robert Graves

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

Robert Graves

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Sandra Cisneros

[Writing is like fishing]. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow for your labor.You crafted, you worked, you put in those hours so that you could catch that fish. But you didn't make that fish. You just caught the fish. That will help you stay humble and bow for the right reason and be very lucid about the work you do.

Sandra Cisneros

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.

Sandra Cisneros

But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Sandra Cisneros

Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to this community. This community needs to hear something very important that I'm the only person in the room who can say it. Please help open me so that I'm not frightened and speak through me. Let me be that channel so that I can help heal." You make yourself so humble that you really are like a flute and that music that comes out comes from el corazón. All the people you're connected to from that light that we call love.

Samuel Johnson

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

Samuel Johnson

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Samuel Johnson

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Rowan Williams

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Ronald Reagan

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Robertson Davies

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

Robert Southey

The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

Robert Owen

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

William Howard Taft

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Willa Cather

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

Warren Buffett

Exercise humility and restraint.

Wayne Dyer

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Virginia Woolf

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

William Blackstone

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

William Bernbach

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

William Blake

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Wendy Wasserstein

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.