Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Madeleine L'Engle

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• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.

  

  Nate Parker
  • You
  • Energy
  • Choose

• Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Expectation

• 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
  • Human
  • LGBT
  • Bacteria

• Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Eye
  • Human

• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Art
  • Human

• You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Know
  • For Her

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Choose

• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Politics
  • Human
  • Expression

• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Human
  • Sharing

• Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

  

  U Thant
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Origin

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Want
  • Win
  • Choose

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Interest
  • Test
  • Studies

• Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Art
  • Write
  • Fearless

• Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Focus
  • Animal

• My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Religious
  • Atheist
  • Ireland

• I think it's terrific. I think Feingold has given one more indication that as people think this through, they realize, as he said, that it's time to end this discrimination.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Time
  • Discrimination
  • Indication

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose