Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anything that the human mind can conceive can be produced ultimately. — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about… — Shary Boyle Copy Share Image
The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros)… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
“My artificial creations will be better than nature's natural creations.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason. — Henry Norman Hudson Copy Share Image
Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image