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Humans Quotes by Bill Bryson
- Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems…
- You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story…
- The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
- Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of…
- Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
- It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely…
- If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain…
- Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished…
- ...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of…
- When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It…
- Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
- Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye,…
- In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
More Humans 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