Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical… — Peter Cheeke Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist. — Nagaru Tanigawa Copy Share Image
In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting. — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
I also loved that there [in Into the Forest] was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image