Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness. — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
They're butterflies because...well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans." -idk..... — Katsura Hoshino Copy Share Image
Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. — David Trimble Copy Share Image
My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically… — William James Copy Share Image
The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image