To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect… — James G. March Copy Share Image
No one ever came up to me and said: "You need to reshape your body, to lose weight, or to be more… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
We're only here for one reason: to wake up... To realize yourself doesn't mean you are perfect as a human being. It… — Eli Jaxon-Bear Copy Share Image
I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
You have babies at home. And you have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
He's a tremendous human being - and that's on top of all of his talent. It's about the way he handles things… — Alex Riley Copy Share Image
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems.… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
When you're onstage, it's a communication technique when you make people laugh. You're communicating. You're communicating with other human beings and when… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or… — Rosie Fellner Copy Share Image
Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel vulnerable a lot interacting with human beings and being honest with people, and if I read their energy kind of… — Matt Nathanson Copy Share Image
Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the… — Seth Copy Share Image
I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
If we can somehow start to remove shame from struggle, if we can truly see people and care for them as our… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image