Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tullian Tchividjian

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

Trevor Nunn

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Trey Parker

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Vera Brittain

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

Vance Havner

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Richard Dawkins

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

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." ?

Robert Wagner

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Robert Reich

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

Richard Paul Evans

I'm a humble guy, okay?

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

Richard P. Feynman

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

Richard P. Feynman

We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

Richelle Mead

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

Richelle Mead

How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn’s gift?” “No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdom’s ‘humble’ gift.

Richard Baxter

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

Richard Baxter

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Richard Baxter

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Rebecca West

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Saint Augustine

The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

Rose George

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?

Roger McDowell

I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good, and the game is going to humble you. But the challenge is how to get through the difficult times.

Tryon Edwards

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Trip Hawkins

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

Richard Curtis

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

Rebecca Romijn

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Rick Yancey

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.