Humans Quotes · Page 264

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

— Bernd Becher

Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

— Milton H. Erickson

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold…

— John Maynard Keynes

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

— Janet Coleman

It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.

— Michael Franti

...this is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith...

— Nirmala Srivastava

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

— John Hersey

Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end…

— Terence McKenna

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in…

— Samuel Johnson

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up [and] the next we…

— Brad Pitt

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change.…

— James Lovelock

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is…

— Isaiah Berlin

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by…

— John W. Thompson

Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled…

— Ruth Benedict

Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees…

— Frans de Waal

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the…

— Coretta Scott King

Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons.…

— Robin Hobb

Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to…

— Richard Brautigan

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated…

— Greg van Eekhout

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

— Vanna Bonta

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

— Walter Wriston

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

— Domhnall Gleeson

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

— Gordon Bell

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

— e. e. cummings

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

— Thabo Mbeki

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

— J. I. Packer

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out…

— Thomas Aquinas

The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.

— Wendell Berry

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about…

— Noam Chomsky

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

— Alexander Pushkin

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

— Pete Hamill

How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.

— William Schreyer

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it…

— Susan Cain

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

— Christopher Hitchens

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

— Kathryn Stockett