Human Beings Quotes
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...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
eL Seed
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
Elizabeth Lesser -
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.
Elise M. Boulding -
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
Brennan Manning -
My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
Corey Feldman -
To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification. God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.
Elisabeth Elliot -
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal
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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emil Cioran -
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... But we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
Haruki Murakami -
Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.
Eugenio Maria de Hostos -
All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Harry Lorayne -
Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.
Nicole Kidman
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser -
I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.
Judith Butler -
As imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!
Brenda Jackson -
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
Elizabeth Edwards -
Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.
Enele Sopoaga -
Our ability to most fully experience the divine is directly linked to our ability to most fully experience relationships with other human beings.
Benjamin L. Corey
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We cannot talk with animals as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.
Rebecca Hall -
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . It is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
Eugene H. Peterson -
No extra credit for being decent human beings.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.
Brigham Young