Humans Quotes
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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
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But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.
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No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.
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No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
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We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.
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The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
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If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
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As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.
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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.
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You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.
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What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.
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As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?
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More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.
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I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that exists in all children.
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That one difference between animals and humans is that humans rarely admit to themselves what it is they really want.
