Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights. — Hafez Ibrahim Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arson's and, last but not… — Carl Panzram Copy Share Image
The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
People are human beings.If you are nice to me, than I am nice to you. I live by my mother's advice, which… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image