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Human Quotes by M.F.K. Fisher
- War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to…
- Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.
- Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
- Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with…
- In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
- It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace 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