Umbly Quotes & Sayings

People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time. We should apologize for it. We should make up for it. My shareholders paid for it. No customer was hurt, which is critical to me. But I hurt my shareholders, and I wish I hadn't. — Jamie Dimon

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life. — Maria Sharapova

I love 'Gossip Girl'! I still miss 'Veronica Mars,' though. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I became aware of applause. It seemed natural. I had been living in the world of romantic comedy and this was the final scene. But it was real. The entire University Club dining room had been watching. I decided to complete the story according to tradition and kissed Rosie. — Graeme Simsion

I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword. — Orlando Bloom

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. — Edward Hopper

It was the ultimate form of our admiration for each other, with full knowledge of the values by which we made our choice. — Ayn Rand

Would you like to be taught Latin?' I said briskly. 'I will teach it to you with pleasure as I learn it.'
'Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield,' he answered, shaking his head. 'I am sure it's very kind of you to make the offer, but I am much too umble to accept it.'
'What nonsense, Uriah!'
'Oh, indeed you must excuse me, Master Copperfield! I am greatly obliged, and I should like it of all things, I assure you; but I am far too umble. There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain't for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on umbly, Master Copperfield. — Charles Dickens

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent ... and remarkably popular products and practices. — Thomas Szasz

It was just a story about despair. — Robert Goolrick

Thinking about fucking. Finding someone to fuck. There was so much fucking. — C.D. Reiss

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. — Rumi

What calamity is greater than no contentment,
and what flaw greater than the passion for gain. — Lao-Tzu