Human Quotes
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Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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It’s amazing what a healing effect horses can have on kids, particularly troubled kids, that might bridge the gap that a well-intended human just can’t do.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.
