All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in… — William James Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members… — Israel Shahak Copy Share Image
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than… — Lisa Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Sometimes in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment.As you become successful,you will need a… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
