We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals… — Carl Cohen Copy Share Image
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change.… — David Cooperrider Copy Share Image
The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image