Human Quotes
-
All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.
Ray Comfort -
I consider myself as a human being with lots of ups and downs and learning from a lot of failures before I can succeed.
Kalki Koechlin
-
As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.
Adrian Gostick -
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
Henry Ward Beecher -
All the epic allusions contribute to the difficulty Clinton has long had in coming across as, simply, a human being. She is uneasy with the press and ungainly on the stump. Catching a glimpse of the 'real' her often entails spying something out of the corner of your eye, in a moment when she's not trying to be, or to sell, 'Hillary Clinton.'
Rebecca Traister -
In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.
Katherine Catmull -
Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.
Dean Burk -
You think of a criminal, and you already judge them for the crime, and you don't really see the human side of them. We all have our sides that we're not proud about.
Adrienne C. Moore
-
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
Italo Calvino -
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.
Alan Thein Durning -
Every human is like a close bud its glory is in blooming. So, evolve consciously to bloom.
Anandmurti Gurumaa -
Almost any job can make us better human beings if we do it with passion.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego -
If one is not a human being, what is one?
Achille Mbembe -
The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
Anthony Robbins
-
I am a human being, with feelings and emotions and scars and flaws, just like anyone else.
Josh Gordon -
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
Ida Tarbell -
“I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.”
Anne Royall -
As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.
Arthur Frederick Saunders -
Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
Gene Chandler -
Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.
David Lilienthal
-
I WOULD LIKE, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs. In my day and turn having been each of the above,—except that instead of husbands I was wives,—I know what I am talking about, and am well acquainted with the ups and downs, the daily ups and downs, the sometimes almost hourly ones in the thin-skinned, which seem inevitably to accompany human loves. Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath. That is how I like to be loved. Therefore I will write of dogs.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed.
Else Lasker-Schuler -
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
Georges Rouault -
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong