No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do. — Sabrina Le Beauf Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone. — Agnes Macphail Copy Share Image
Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
'Justice League' takes place in the past, and Aquaman has a lot more to prove. He's just starting out. The perception is… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake. — Neko Case Copy Share Image
For every expert that says humans are the cause of 'climate change' there are 10 more who say we aren't. — Bradley A. Blakeman Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future. — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money. — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
