Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Collins

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

Suzanne Collins

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Stephen Mitchell

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Stephen Leacock

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

Stephen King

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

Starhawk

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Sophie Swetchine

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

Taylor Lautner

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

Stanley Hauerwas

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

Stephenie Meyer

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

Stephen Colbert

Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time - of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

Thomas Gray

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Thomas B. Macaulay

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Tim Tebow

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Tim Tebow

There are several things that keep me grounded and focused... When you can humble yourself to say 'I'm no more important than anyone else. I just have a gift.'

Tim Tebow

For me, it's a great opportunity on a public platform to get on your knees and humble myself and thank the Lord for all the blessings he's put in my life.

Tim Tebow

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

Tim Berners-Lee

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Thomas Ligotti

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Thomas Goodwin

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

Thomas Keating

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

Thomas Keating

The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

Thomas Keating

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Thomas Adams

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty .... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

Thomas Brooks

An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

Thomas Brooks

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

Thomas Brooks

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

Thomas Brooks

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.