Humans Quotes · Page 274

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

— Norman Cousins

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

— David LaChapelle

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their…

— Albert Einstein

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

— Benjamin Franklin

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

— John Jay Chapman

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is,…

— Craig Stone

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings,…

— Derrick Jensen

If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run…

— Emil Zatopek

We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I don't like to talk about it in those terms; it's impossible to describe who or what God "is." Suppose you were…

— John Shelby Spong

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny…

— Mohsin Hamid

Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces…

— Peace Pilgrim

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important…

— Ron Kovic

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth…

— Thomas Jefferson

You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a…

— Shams Tabrizi

Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not…

— E. O. Wilson

We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to…

— Terence McKenna

I am really touched and surprised that your generation [of millenials] feels that way, and I'm really happy the work stands up.…

— Marisa Tomei

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning out robots, that's all. They…

— Grant Morrison

You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to…

— Jon Spaihts

It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more…

— H. L. Mencken

The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the…

— Yukio Mishima

Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived.

— Dennis Kimbro

My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must…

— Stephenie Meyer

Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

— William J. H. Boetcker

I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and…

— Jon Voight

I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

— Woody Allen

I think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

— Emma Thompson

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

— Martin Sheen

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human…

— Mark Twain

Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.

— Matt Haig

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.

— William H. Schlesinger

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

— Michel de Montaigne

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it…

— Katherine Anne Porter

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or…

— Paul Fleischman

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

— Edgar Allan Poe