...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“That is one of the conceptions most difficult for stupid people to grasp. They always suppose some ponderable alteration will make the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“Lamenting the vagaries of fate may leave us with a galling sense of helpless frustration, which many escape by transforming the tragedy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The human condition comprehends more than the conditions under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“Union with God is not something we acquire by a technique but the grounding truth of our lives that engenders the very… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Our disability is discursive: we simply do not know how to talk about these things any more. For the last thirty years,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it.… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.'… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
“It is greatly understated to compare humans to an absorbent sponge, a glowing fuse; they are each an innumerable harmony, a living… — Johann Herder Copy Share Image
“That is the way of management from time immemorial, in medieval feudal states, communist dictatorships, and capitalist conference rooms alike. It is… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems,… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
