We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its… — Gregor Strasser Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
What's amazing about the show ["Girls"] - the first (season) is about the girls and then the second (season) is about the… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Faith in the resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being; the cry for unending life which… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired… — Robert Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to… — Michael J. Nelson Copy Share Image
The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that theyre complicated and weird or shy or any… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the cliché that a woman becomes… — Patricia Rozema Copy Share Image
This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand,… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
In yesterday's post, I asked how many of you guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as… — George Will Copy Share Image
The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Caring for children has always been one of the deepest and most satisfying things that a human being does, and yet it… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image