George Gissing Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
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The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
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So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Live fast, die young.
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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
