Human Being Quotes

678 Human Being quotes by 604 unique authors

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn… — George Steiner
I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You… — Melanie Lynskey
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy… — David Brin
A human being is only breath and shadow. — Sophocles
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge… — Sergei Eisenstein
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he… — Philippe Halsman
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and… — Lisa Kudrow
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. — Jeanne Moreau
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or… — James Weldon Johnson
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not… — Nikola Tesla
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one,… — Tom Lehrer
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how… — Ulysses S. Grant
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. — Robert Bly
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering… — Delmore Schwartz
I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful… — Clara Hughes
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has… — Unknown Author
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being. — Dale Murphy
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on… — Henning Mankell
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions. — Francois-Henri Pinault

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