Humans Quotes · Page 259

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

— Lenny Bruce

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power…

— Anonymous

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and…

— Sam Francis

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

— Knute Nelson

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is…

— Oprah Winfrey

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

— Smokey Robinson

Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.

— William F. Schulz

“If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters.”

— Amit Kalantri

We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,…

— Wendell Berry

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally…

— Stephen King

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing…

— Steven Erikson

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a…

— Norman Ralph Augustine

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is…

— Albert Camus

Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk,…

— Ben Aaronovitch

The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to…

— Wes Jackson

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the…

— Virginia Woolf

Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an…

— R. D. Laing

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as…

— Rajneesh

The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that…

— Ray Kurzweil

Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in…

— Alexander Hamilton

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact,…

— Dale Carnegie

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

— Linda Hogan

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

— Frank Luntz

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it…

— Eqbal Ahmad

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

— Kobo Abe

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

— Terry Pratchett

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

— Kenneth Appel

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its…

— Ronald Reagan

When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.

— Deepak Chopra

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

— Kofi Annan

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

— Antonino Zichichi

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

— David James Duncan

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

— Pablo Antonio Cuadra