Delia Sherman Quotes
I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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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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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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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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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.
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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
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I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
