It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing. — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I would say that not many German people are still alive, who experienced what happened during the third reich. We don't have… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity… — Eduard Suess Copy Share Image
In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
It is the nature of human beings not to be able to leave nature alone. — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image