“Your own shortcomings are the best ground to grow your sense of humor.” — Stu Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“Mindful Monday Humans, May your coffee kick in before reality does.” — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family. — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment. — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved.… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands,… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image