Human Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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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.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
