Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences. — Catherine Malandrino Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings. — Jaggi Vasudev 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
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
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
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
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
