Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

Alan Cohen

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.

Alan Cohen

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

English Proverbs

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

James Keller

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

Robert Pitts

We must show humility and be humble, ... And we must turn away from ways that are unpleasing to God.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

Jacques Santini

We have a strong spirit and humility in the team.

Le Corbusier

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Lilly Singh

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

Alan Cohen

The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

Alan Cohen

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

In the broken places, the light shines through.

Sen Freedman

The reaction of Northeast Utilities, particularly the Connecticut Light & Power division, to the winter storm during the week of Jan. 15, 2006, was unconscionable.

David Briggs

There is light at the end of the tunnel, but how long is the tunnel?.

Ian Shepherdson

There is at least some light at the end of the tunnel, but unfortunately it is still a long way off,

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Virginia Anderson

We had to move everything out, ... I have a candle maker now in Alabama. I'm sorry we had to quit making them here, but we're going to be able to concentrate on growing the business.

Cristela Alonzo

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

Alan Ackerman

We're still three-to-four weeks away from second-quarter earnings reports and there's nothing really to light a candle under stocks,

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Susan Isaacs

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Andrew Fletcher

Like his that lights a candle to the sun.

Frank Gorshin

Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.

John Scalzi

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.