Bescheidenheid Quotes & Sayings

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom. — Henry David Thoreau

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court. — Norman Mailer

Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.' — Jeff Jordan

All my years of campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To — Gloria Steinem

When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion. — Bob Horner

I don't wash my hair very often. Once a week if I can. Because the more you wash it, you end up stripping out the natural oils. What I like to do is just rinse out the products that I've used during the week and then put leave-in conditioner in and let it dry naturally. — Ella Eyre

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' — Scott Thompson

I guess I need to work on slow after all. — Stacie Simpson

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important. — James Pearse Connelly

[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary. — Hermann Hankel