Humans Quote by Janet Frame Download Open image “I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.” — Janet Frame ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Identity Nature of man Pretense Self knowledge Want World
Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I don't want to change the world, I don't want the world to change me. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I don't want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“So I went up north to a land of palm trees and mangroves like malignant growths in the mud-filled throats of the bays, and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“A certain pleasure was added to Grace’s relief at establishing herself as a migratory bird. She found that she understood the characters in her… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“I have to cry out here that language is all we have for the delicacy and truth of telling, that words are the sole… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the… — Janet Frame Copy Share
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I… — Janet Frame Copy Share
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
