Human Quotes
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
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I'm obsessed with being human.
Rachelle Lefevre
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People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
Richard Thompson
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
Sam Shepard
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
Natasha Lyonne
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Every human being makes mistakes.
Ian Smith
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
Kate Bush
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'
Vikas Swarup
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller
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'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
Wagner Moura
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
Kat Graham
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
D. H. Lawrence
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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
Lactantius
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
Ralph Merkle
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
P. J. Harvey
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Damon Galgut
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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.
Harald zur Hausen
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
Mackenzie Astin