It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function.… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
“Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone… — David Farrier Copy Share Image
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
When ISIS last year called for the destruction of the Yazidi people, President Obama said that would constitute genocide and he ordered… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human… — Karl-Henrik Robert Copy Share Image
It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of… — William James Copy Share Image
The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image