Human Quotes
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Daniel Dennett
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Igor Stravinsky
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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.
Walter Gilbert
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
Sam Kean
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
Gary Oldman
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
Nancy Pearcey
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Tech is all about building human connections.
Padmasree Warrior
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
N. K. Jemisin
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
Mandy Patinkin
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
Albert Einstein
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
Hans Kung
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
Laura Dern
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
Walter Jon Williams
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Ida Pauline Rolf
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
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Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.
Kathryn Hughes
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
Manny Pacquiao
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
Vicente Fox
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
Laura Dern
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
Forrest Bird
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
Ed Greenwood