#hum

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important. ↗

— James Caan

#being #collector #does #garbage #honestly

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#control #humble #modest #simple #your

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces. ↗

— Robert Cailliau

#faces #great #humanity #humankind #many

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#human nature #instinctively #nature #obscurity #ordinariness

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. ↗

— John Callahan

#feminist #humor #section

Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#human-behaviour #money #partners #psychology #relationship

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#crisis #genuinely #human #understand #understanding

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#any #because #being #fleeting #founded

In grammar school he’d had an old priest as his religion teacher. “Truth is light,” the priest had said one day. Montalbano, never very studious, had been a mischievous pupil, always sitting in the last row. “So that must mean that if everyone in the family tells the truth, they save on the electric bill. ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#family

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good