Humanly Quotes
93 Humanly quotes by 83 unique authors
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The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
— Tony Kushner
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If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.
— Matthew Perry
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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all…
— George Santayana
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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
— Jose Saramago
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly…
— Linus Torvalds
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to…
— Rachel Zoe
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To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She…
— Brian Kolodiejchuk
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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
— Wendell Berry
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost...
— William Shakespeare
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I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life…
— Bertrand Russell
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Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?
— James Ellroy
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
— Martin Buber
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My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will…
— Frederick Buechner
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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a…
— Anais Nin
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You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather,…
— J D Salinger
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one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do,…
— Anne Lamott
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I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly…
— Sophie Kinsella
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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.
— Karen Marie Moning
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The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire…
— Victor Hugo
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When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of…
— Paul Brunton
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As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could…
— John Calvin
Who Wrote These Humanly Quotes
83 authors contributed a total of 93 Humanly Quotes, led by these top contributors: