What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
People are still very uncomfortable with the idea that humans are not specially created species. I believe we are a fantastic species.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it… — Karl Ludwig von Knebel Copy Share Image
It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness… — David Richo Copy Share Image
We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do.… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in developing human character in society. And I'm much more interested in the social conditions that foster commitment… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
