great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals… — Carl Cohen Copy Share Image
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life.… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the… — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
As a human being, we must learn to be kind to each other. We are not animals! And stop acting like one!… — HQLinesme Copy Share Image
Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I think love means a warm feeling about a human or a condition, where you feel emotional, and you feel like you… — Fisher Stevens Copy Share Image
No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Globalization has not only lost its promise but is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular… — Dannion Brinkley Copy Share Image
Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them -… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image