Human beings Quotes · Page 96

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

— Nancy Kress

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

— John P. Kotter

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

— Patty Duke

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

— Ivan Chermayeff

I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

— Steve Martin

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

— Yukio Mishima

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical…

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or…

— Scarlett Johansson

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And…

— Masayoshi Son

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and…

— James Cromwell

We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in…

— Marion Woodman

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the…

— Rose Tremain

I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children,…

— Colin Farrell

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation.…

— Immanuel Kant

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the…

— Rajneesh

Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do…

— Nikola Tesla

Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to…

— Marc Gafni

To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that…

— Elisabeth Elliot

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with…

— Dalai Lama

There are so many things happening nowadays that you've seen in films from years ago, like cloning and all of those things…

— Kaya Scodelario

When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he…

— Mother Teresa

“Nonetheless, gazing out the train window at a random sample of the Western world, I could not avoid noticing a kind of…

— Jeremy Narby

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful…

— Gloria Steinem

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important…

— Alvin Ailey

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular…

— John Twelve Hawks

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the…

— Andrew McMahon

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

— Anonymous

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

— Arianna Huffington

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human…

— Eknath Easwaran

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

— Jim Fowler

The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

— Nachman of Breslov

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

— Nicole Kidman

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

— Peter Steinhart

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

— Marco Pierre White

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our…

— Edward Abbey

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

— Carlos Castaneda

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that…

— Penn Jillette

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

— Marilyn Monroe