motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all... — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics –… — Tom Scharpling Copy Share Image
As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache. — Terry Gou Copy Share Image
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
“The cause of our despair is the sentences at the back of our minds, all of which contain the word ‘should’. It… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
How do you know Hollywood is getting serious about video games? They want to make one of their own. In 'Defiance,' the… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences. — John Powell Copy Share Image
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights. — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
