Human Quotes
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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The human toll is what's important here. I pray that with God's help, and with all the ability that you have, that you see through anything that may be an obstacle to mine safety, and realize that money can't be a deterrent, nothing can be a deterrent.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.
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Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.
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Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.
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I'm a wordless storyteller, someone who cares about the dynamics of music...Musical dynamics are human dynamics.
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Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.
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Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
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Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.
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You can't be human alone.
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Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals.
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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The fiercest of beasts is the human. He kills even when he's not hungry.
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Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.
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We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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To be fully and authentically human, we have to be prepared to take off the armor we usually go around wearing to keep the world from hurting us. We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to love
