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Human Quotes by Jim Butcher
- On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand,…
- Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a…
- The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently…
- The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
- The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at…
- There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a…
- Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before…
- For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking…
- There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure,"…
- I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go…
- We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way,…
- Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.
- But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human…
- Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define…
- I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
- Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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