“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Sentience is a means to the end of continued existence. Sentient beings, by virtue of their being sentient, have an interest in… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
That machines will surpass us in intelligence is inevitable. What it means is unknowable. Will they be sentient? What will they care… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“How can you humans actually believe yourselves superior to any truly sentient being? Look at you - self-styled demigods, mired in your… — Camille Anthony Copy Share Image
“Sentience is not an end in itself. It is a means to the end of staying alive. Sentient beings use sensations of… — Francione, Gary L Copy Share Image
“All of you do this. Every organic sapient I’ve ever talked to, every book I’ve read, every piece of art I’ve studied.… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“He said that the world was sentient to its core and secret and black beyond men's imagining and that its nature did… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Belly laughs are one of the best things about being sentient, and you should never miss a chance for one.” — Dennis E. Taylor Copy Share Image
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“My brain needs to be a sentient being that way it can say, "Nadiyah. NADIYAH!! I know where you're going with this… — Nadiyah Abdul-Khaliq Copy Share Image
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I adore the way nature reflects all of the sentient beings in our world.” — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
