Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This… — Richard D. Zanuck Copy Share Image
“It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun. The more they were gifted with inventions, the… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations,… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring,… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching pornography and yet we treat… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image