Humans Quotes · Page 454

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

— Rob Bell

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

— Lionel Shriver

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

— Zoltan Kodaly

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

— Morena Baccarin

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

— Mark Horton

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the…

— George Washington

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

— Nancy Kress

Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and…

— Pat Conroy

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing…

— Thomas Sowell

“even while it’s true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons—as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms…

— David Eagleman

So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology.…

— Annia Ciezadlo

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be…

— Wilhelm Reich

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source -…

— Ernie Fletcher

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to…

— Greg Graffin

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me…

— Deborah Bull

“Mob is not the plural of man, he said. We’re dealing with a different species, that has kaleidoscopes in the hollows of…

— Ursule Molinaro

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort…

— Meryl Streep

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true…

— Buddhadasa

We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated…

— James A. Michener

Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my…

— Osamu Dazai

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope…

— Dionne Warwick

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to…

— Thomas Berry

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

— Rebecca West

Every human is like all other humans, some other humans, and no other human.

— Clyde Kluckhohn

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

— Immanuel Kant

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too…

— Jimmy Wales

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

— Vanna Bonta

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to…

— Cyril Connolly

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to…

— Jamie Wyeth

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

— Carlton Fisk

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

— Yukio Mishima

I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

— Steve Martin

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person…

— Jo Coudert

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs…

— Caroline Dries