The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew. — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world… [ellipsis in source] He was always… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too! — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective. — Stephanie Gilmore Copy Share Image
I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image