If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The… — Azam Ali Copy Share Image
When you approach someone as a human being, truly and try to be as open as safety allows, some of the bigger… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit… — Friedrich Accum Copy Share Image
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion,… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and,… — Alice Crary Copy Share Image
All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The Long Emergency will be chiefly characterized as a "time out" from technology. It could plunge us into a dark age of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image