It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant. — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. — John Green Copy Share Image
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love… — Douglas Bader Copy Share Image
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt? — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
“There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
