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Human Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have…
- For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel.…
- Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
- What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for…
- Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
- Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and…
- I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes,…
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