Humans Quotes · Page 383

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made…

— Daisaku Ikeda

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another, is in some way, to make that person's life a little…

— John Assaraf

Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

— Sara Genn

“Evil is an incurable disease, and some people were just born with it - passed down through generations. It's in their DNA”

— Niedria D. Kenny

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

— Ovid

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it…

— George Bernard Shaw

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does…

— Lisa Kleypas

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that…

— John Grisham

The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes…

— Sargent Shriver

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily…

— Kathleen Norris

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,…

— Freya Stark

The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes…

— Alberto Giacometti

So when you tell a joke, you want to make someone laugh, or if you tell a story about someone who had…

— Peter Guber

Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched…

— Robert Kennedy

In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims…

— Rudolf Steiner

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.…

— Atul Gawande

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning…

— Anonymous

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority…

— H. L. Mencken

“The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male…

— Margaret Atwood

My personal belief is we should not bow to any object. But Islam was aware of this human weakness and fulfilled that…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as…

— Steven Van Zandt

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place…

— Frank Herbert

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

— Stephen Levine

Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

— Janet Morris

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

— Frans de Waal

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

— Christian Louboutin

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

— Charles Stanley

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

— Hildegard of Bingen

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher…

— C. V. Wedgwood

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

— John Wayne

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it…

— Pope John Paul II

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

— Gentry Lee

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…

— Jared Diamond

We all have secrets, some secrets bigger than others, is a normal human thing.

— Viggo Mortensen

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

— Arthur Miller