“Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows… — Larry Herzberg Copy Share Image
It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
“Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition!” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Maybe it would be well understood in this far future time that resilience, determination, refusal to accept defeat, and ability to bounce… — Douglas E. Richards 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
Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow… — Peter Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
“Let us imagine a number of men in fetters, and all condemned to death, some of whom are executed each day in… — Balise Pascal Copy Share Image
I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Vast migrations of people—some voluntary, most not—have shaped the human condition. More of us flee from war, oppression, and famine today than… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“But then I realized, they didn't mean their own mothers. Not those weak women, those victims. Drug addicts, shopaholics, cookie bakers. They… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Through all the years of considered opinion and thoughtful contribution that offers to explain the human condition, we are yet to see… — Steve Carlsson Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor and publisher, was serving as the American ambassador to France, he often impressed French intellectual with… — Paul Kropp Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living… — V. Vale Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We are the observers, and our writing makes us witnesses to what we have seen and learned about the human condition.” — Heather Ormsby Copy Share Image
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about… — Paul Polman 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
“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
America is far and away superior to every other place on earth, in terms of lifestyles, liberty, and freedom. In terms of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
