Humans Quotes · Page 304

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

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

Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.

— William F. Schulz

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is…

— Oprah Winfrey

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

— Knute Nelson

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

— Smokey Robinson

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and…

— Sam Francis

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power…

— Anonymous

Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations…

— Frank Herbert

Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in…

— Ted Nordhaus

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their…

— John Muir

We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want…

— Adam Haslett

Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or…

— T. S. Eliot

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a…

— Eudora Welty

If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You…

— John Shelby Spong

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural…

— William James

The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things…

— Seth Godin

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted…

— George Matthew Adams

The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time…

— Joshua L. Liebman

THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s fundamental to…

— Rosalind Wiseman

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a…

— Edward Bellamy

This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live…

— Harry S. Truman

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

— Lenny Bruce

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

— Walter Brueggemann

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

— Helen Keller

“I must forget you forever; that kind face, beautiful smile and heartbreaking black eyes, I should have known that, angels are not…

— M.F. Moonzajer

First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

— Isaac Asimov

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

— John Adams

Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.

— Mike McCue

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

— Virginia Woolf

“The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.”

— Amit Kalantri

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

— Lewis Thomas

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

— Lupita Nyong'o

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

— Eric Schmidt

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

— Marilynne Robinson