Human beings Quotes · Page 121

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we…

— Helen Mirren

A dog, however nice he is, and sweet-tempered, doesn't have much of a range of options. A human being does.

— Tenzin Palmo

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

— Lewis Thomas

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I…

— Jeff Buckley

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

— Bruce Dickinson

This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.

— Keith L. Moore

It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate…

— Frederick Lenz

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a…

— Orson Scott Card

“Whether people are beautiful and friendly or unattractive and disruptive, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want…

— Dalai Lama XIV

By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only…

— Maria Montessori

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being…

— Honore de Balzac

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race…

— Marian Wright Edelman

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we…

— Maya Angelou

As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something…

— Ron Perlman

Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human…

— Ben Barnes

Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge,…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made…

— Alain de Botton

I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe…

— Blake Butler

We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very,…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t…

— Judd Nelson

Someone asks me what's my practice? I don't want the fear of being humiliated to have authority over me. I don't want…

— Caroline Myss

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand…

— Terry Eagleton

With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own…

— Dalai Lama

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He…

— Dennis Rodman

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

— Ayn Rand

Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that?…

— Swami Vivekananda

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

— Bill Cosby

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

— Dalai Lama

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

— Jennifer Lopez

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

— Corliss Lamont

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

— Desmond Tutu

I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.

— Carroll Shelby

Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.

— Edna Adan Ismail

How we take care of our animals is a very good indicator of how we are doing as a society. It is…

— Ken Howard

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What…

— Oscar Niemeyer

We can't be miserable all the time. I think just as human beings, we have to find joy or else all is…

— Cord Jefferson

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

— Rachel Cusk

I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time…

— Fannie Lou Hamer