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Human Quotes by Dean Koontz
- Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.
- All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of…
- The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if…
- All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also…
- It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment…
- In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
- Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
- I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many…
- Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less…
- Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good,…
- Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that…
- Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
- Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
- After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out…
- Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is…
- Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force.…
- Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.
- There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
- No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you…
- I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their…
- Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
- She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had…
- The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle…
- I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings,…
- Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong