What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He marvelled at the assortment of human life spread out before him. The rich brushed shoulders with the poor, Irish men cracked… — Ken Magee Copy Share Image
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all… — John Green Copy Share Image
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The end is brother to the beginning. He who is sent out is obliged to return. No one may resist what must… — Johannes von Saaz Copy Share Image
“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Experiencing what we did with Lucifer taught me so much. Things I will take with me forever, even when my human life… — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
“Beyond the tablet of stone, the papyrus scroll or parchment roll, human life has become the articulate voice of God. Jesus is… — Francois Du Toit Copy Share Image
There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He's spent time in jail. He… — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all His blessings health, physical fitness, wealth,… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
“Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when… — Zbigniew Jaworowski Copy Share Image
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers?… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
“Encounters taking the form of challenge-and-response are the most illuminating kind of events a for student of human affairs if he believes,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The main reason for moral inconsistencies and betrayals, Ayn Rand believed, is that men have been taught to pursue ideals that are… — Robert James Bidinotto Copy Share Image
“This is the breaking point in a human life, right here. This is waking up on an operating table to find aliens… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous… — Elias Hasket Derby Copy Share Image
The truth that humanity was made in the likeness of God is the starting point for a biblical understanding of the nature… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image