It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is idle to say there is no such garden. Everyone recognises the same nostalgia... Paradise is neither a moment nor a… — Richard Cavendish Copy Share Image
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
“The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.” — Paul O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When we fully know in our hearts who we are as living beings, not only emotionally, psychologically, politically, or socially, we can… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry about today." "Do you want to talk about it?" "I was bored and lonely." "Some would call that the human… — Michael Nava Copy Share Image
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No one… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“...Tango is not just a dance. It's our human condition. To everyone who loves tango, it's what art is to the artist.… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In his seminal book, Man’s Search for Meaning, the psychiatrist Victor Frankl described the essence of what has come to be known… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say,… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“Because fairy tales contain powerful truths about the human condition, many of them, with tenacity and uncanny persistence, turn up, theme and… — Gertrud Mueller Nelson Copy Share Image
