I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition. — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“There's no guarantee I'll survive it, but that's sort of the human condition, isn't it? In the end, nobody gets out alive.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
“Integrating the fullness of the human condition into one's spiritual practice is what leads to emotional sobriety.” — Ingrid Mathieu Copy Share Image
I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The very fact of being human panics us into the most grotesque play-acting imaginable; and we deal in absurdities to keep life… — Hal Bennett Copy Share Image
“Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“The Self since the time of Descartes has been stranded, split off from everything else in the Cosmos, a mind which professes… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“In 1983 Colonel Burns wrote a poem in which he envisioned how his fledgling communications network might one day influence the world.… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“To commit one’s life to the Jesus Reality is far more than an intellectual undertaking. While the Reality of Jesus is a… — John F. Baggett Copy Share Image
“The crucial issue of the times, he suggested, was the human person: a unique being, who lived in a material world but… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“At an early age, it seems to be a part of the human condition to rebel against some type of authority as… — Michael W. Ford 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
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling. — Fisher Stevens 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
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“All choices have consequences,' she said []. 'That doesn't mean we're not free to make them. It's one of the perplexities of… — Ingrid Black Copy Share Image
The human condition is defined by periods of not knowing as much as one wants and is crowned by moments of thinking… — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
“How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image