Human beings Quotes · Page 241

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…

— Peter Singer

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit…

— Simon Gray

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness,…

— David Zindell

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the…

— Tadao Ando

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

— Joseph Conrad

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that…

— Anonymous

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training,…

— Samuel Smiles

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

— Saul Alinsky

Everybody needs a fan, and the support and the encouragement. We're human beings; that is an essential part of the equation. When…

— Jillian Michaels

We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we…

— Rodolfo Llinas

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the…

— Salman Rushdie

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on…

— Edward Hirsch

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

— Martie Maguire

I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He…

— Charles Templeton

Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings…

— David Whyte

We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who…

— William Segal

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

— Swami Vivekananda

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where…

— Gloria Steinem

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

— Maurice Sendak

Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and…

— Sonya Lamonakis

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

— Thomas Kinkade

The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every…

— Frederick Lenz

I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is…

— Ani DiFranco