'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition.… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
“I believe solitude to be not only the unavoidable human condition but also the sensible human preference." ― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision:… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
“...the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“Today Chanya is kikiat and won’t be doing any work of any kind. Kikiat is usually translated as “lazy,” which is misleading… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
“Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows… — Larry Herzberg Copy Share Image
I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning… — Beverly Jenkins Copy Share Image
If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They've rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“It is always tempting to try to shut out the suffering that is an inescapable part of the human condition, but once… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's very much an exploration of the human condition and how different people react and respond to their lives. And what they… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories.… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if… — Howard Norman 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
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
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