Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there?… — George N. Atiyeh Copy Share Image
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat.… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least.… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that… — Smiley Blanton Copy Share Image
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image