It is my desire, by my presence and with my words, to pay tribute to your tireless work in defending and fostering… — Raymond Leo Burke Copy Share Image
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
Idea is a noble one — an idea that fills and expands all generous souls; the idea of equality — the equality… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Insofar as human beings flower on the ground of freedom, justice guards that ground. Insofar as human beings flower in the soil… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history.… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where… — Evan Tanner Copy Share Image
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image