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Human Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most…
- In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
- The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while…
- Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society…
- I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into…
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — 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
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell