One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition. — Donald Fehr Copy Share Image
The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that… — George Dzundza Copy Share Image
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
“Plants, animals, men, angels, then God. Difference between men and angels is that men are stuck in a body. They feel pain,… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That… — Moby Copy Share Image
“We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“You’re fucked up, mister. But you’re cool.” “I believe that’s what they call the human condition,” said Shadow.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
“People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
“You're f'd up, mister, but you're cool. I believe that's what they call the human condition” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the… — Melanie Shankle Copy Share Image