Human Quotes

• I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Spiritual
  • Human
  • Hands

• If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Change
  • Human

• Virtually every human being in the country has benefited from animal research.

  

  John Young
  • Country
  • Animal
  • Virtually

• I would say that I think the film "I am love" is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Nature
  • Film
  • Inevitable

• When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Human

• Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies - the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Beings
  • Desperation
  • Agitation

• Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Up
  • Definition
  • Procedures

• Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Action
  • Learning

• Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Minutes

• Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Art
  • Death
  • Fighting

• If we reorganize and reform the enormous human and technological intelligence assets America has, as the commission has recommended, we will be able to see, hear and stop the terrorist attacks against us before they occur.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • America
  • Stop
  • Terrorists

• My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Fulfillment
  • My Name
  • Thousand Dollars

• The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Death
  • Single
  • Price

• I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Supposed
  • Make Sense
  • Ghost Stories

• I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Religious
  • Minds

• So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Long
  • Jesus
  • Jesus Christ

• Sometimes the human race is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squander them just because we are human beings. This is all about that.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Human
  • Gifts
  • Squander

• I'm just a human whose skill is making music.

  

  Burna Boy
  • Music
  • Human
  • Making

• (In reply to 'So, you could technically eat a human?') "Could and would.”

  

  Jona Weinhofen Bleeding Through
  • Human
  • Reply

• There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Soul
  • Human
  • Faculty

• It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Reason
  • Human
  • Phenomenon

• Cats are only human, they have their faults.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Human
  • Faults
  • Cats

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