Humans Quotes · Page 366

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

— Edmund Hillary

Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role…

— Jacques Vallee

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and…

— Eckhart Tolle

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything…

— Celia Green

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy…

— Thomas M. Disch

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that…

— Sylvia Earle

If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a…

— Narendra Modi

“Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad…

— Jonathan Morris

We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to…

— Timothy Keller

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag

It’s amazing what a healing effect horses can have on kids, particularly troubled kids, that might bridge the gap that a well-intended…

— Buck Brannaman

The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the…

— Ravi Zacharias

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I…

— Mae Whitman

No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy…

— W. C. Fields

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know…

— Rosa Parks

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any…

— William Jennings Bryan

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the…

— Orhan Pamuk

Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all…

— Theodor Schwenk

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so…

— Carl Sagan

To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect…

— Sean Astin

When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things…

— Stephen Covey

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy…

— Stephen King

... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one…

— Robert Parry

I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high…

— Douglas Coupland

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

— George William Russell

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order…

— Frederick Lenz

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

— David Henry Hwang

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

— Roger Scruton

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

— Erwin Chargaff

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

— Ayn Rand

“Ambitious humans! We seek the glory of being heroes without first the service of being helpers...and find only humiliation.”

— Criss Jami

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.

— William Holden

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

— Henri Nouwen

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

— Stephen Bier, Jr

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

— Henry Ward Beecher

In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.

— Anonymous

There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

— Robert Pattinson

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

— William James

During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.

— Fabien Cousteau

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka