Diogenes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Paramahansa Yogananda
-
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
-
It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
Natalie Dormer
-
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
Sam Kean
-
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
Madeleine L'Engle
-
I am passionate about human rights.
Hannah Simone
-
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
Yahya Jammeh
-
If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
Karen Salmansohn
-
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken
-
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
-
The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
Narendra Modi
-
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim
-
I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
Cameron Diaz
-
We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
Earl Blumenauer
-
Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel Castro
-
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
H. P. Lovecraft
-
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell
-
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
Haniel Long
-
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
Rahm Emanuel
-
When it's all said and done, I'm held responsible for our budget. If I had the latitude, there's nothing I would rather do than grant everybody's wishes. Unfortunately, I'm not in that position.
Eric Hyman
-
Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.
Eugene Kennedy
-
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas
-
Everything changes when a man becomes purple
Charlie McDonnell Chameleon Circuit
-
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."
Diogenes