John Hillcoat Quotes

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

John Hillcoat

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• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Speak
  • Start
  • Blessings

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
  • Captain

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Children
  • Humanity
  • Service

• I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Think
  • Humanity

• My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • World
  • Music
  • American

• I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Learn

• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Dark

• Every time we ignore the suffering of others or stand by and watch, we do not only act against our own interests but we violate a part of our humanity.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Time
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations - to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts; as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it, the same catharsis.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Humanity
  • Revolution
  • Ignorance

• An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Powerful

• When under the influence of certain or some reasons or causes alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here the low instincts are unbridled or unrestrained, the brute appearsand rule over or dominate, stifling every noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin or downfall or decline of any humanity in man.

  

  African Spir
  • Humanity
  • Rule
  • Alcohol

• It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Hand

• It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Silence

• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Lazy
  • Directors

• It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • Humanity