Humetrics Quotes & Sayings

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn't that apply to all of us? — Pulkit Patel

There can never be enough written about heroic acts and heroic people, we all need the inspiration they give us. — Carey V. Azzara

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil. — Ambrose Bierce

Winter solstice: the darkest time of the year. No sooner has he woken up in the morning than he feels the day beginning to slip away from him. There is no light to sink his teeth into, no sense of time unfolding. Rather, a feeling of doors being shut, of locks being turned. It is a hermetic season, a long moment of inwardness. The outer world, the tangible world of materials and bodies, has come to seem no more than an emanation of his mind. He feels himself sliding through events, hovering like a ghost around his own presence, as if he were living somewhere to the side of himself - not really here, but not anywhere else either. A feeling of having been locked up, and at the same time of being able to walk through walls. He notes somewhere in the margins of a thought: a darkness in the bones. — Paul Auster

Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more. — Simon Sinek

Definition of an alcoholic is an egomaniac with an inferiority complex — Alcoholics Anonymous

I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Great books make great being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How about a ... deal?" His face was bent down, shadowed, and he looked up at me through his lashes. The effect was an impression of trustworthiness. "Help me make tacos, and I'll answer a dew of your questions. — Becca Fitzpatrick

No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be. — Haruki Murakami

I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things. — Leslie Nielsen

Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either. — Rajneesh

I like talking. I like acting. — Denzel Washington