Humans Quotes · Page 206

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

— Richard Louv

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

— Osamu Dazai

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

— Henry Petroski

The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in…

— M. F. K. Fisher

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

— Amanda Donohoe

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

— Pamela Stephenson

The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor,…

— Louis O. Kelso

Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and…

— Cassidy Erin Gifford

I look for the essence of a story and a human angle that I think audiences can relate to. I also look…

— Hrithik Roshan

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling…

— Henning Mankell

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also…

— Dan Barker

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work…

— John Hurt

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used…

— David Suzuki

In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today…

— Pope John Paul II

It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship…

— Ann Brashares

This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the…

— Carroll Quigley

All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two…

— Neale Donald Walsch

What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features…

— Thomas Metzinger

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to…

— Jesse Owens

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now…

— Billy Joel

In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his…

— Laini Taylor

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

— Charles Stross

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.

— T. Mills

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

— Alexander Pope

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human…

— Barbara Hurd

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

— Del Shannon

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a…

— Jim Harrison

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit…

— Anonymous

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

— Huston Smith

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

— John D. MacDonald

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a…

— Christopher Hitchens

Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired…

— GRiZ

Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.

— Anonymous

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a…

— Sue Grafton

I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

— Marco Reus