Humans Quotes
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
William Jennings Bryan
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I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
Kevin Spacey
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To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
Neal Barnard
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I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.
Dalai Lama
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How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
John Gardner
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Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
Stephen Covey
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There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
Mike Rounds
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Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
Nalini Singh
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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
Terence McKenna
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Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.
Eudora Welty
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If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you attempt to remove the tracking device, you will be terminated. We look forward to working with you.
Kiersten White
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
William Wilberforce
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What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.
John Gardner
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One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.
James Mercer Broken Bells
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Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.
Booker T. Jones Booker T. & the M.G.'s
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One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.
John Gardner
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I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.
Carroll Shelby
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Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.
Ken Robinson
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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
William Lloyd Garrison