Humans Quotes
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.
Northrop Frye
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
Ned Vizzini
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It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
Virginia Woolf
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The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.
Eric Lander
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone
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I’ll put this in words you can understand: humans are hideous, pain-guzzling, pollution-spouting space monsters who might threaten our way of life.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Thomas Aquinas
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Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.
Astra Taylor
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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
Terence McKenna
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Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.
Evan Davis
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What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
Seth Godin
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The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!
Mohnish Pabrai
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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
William Cowper
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
Seth Godin
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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.
Burton Silverman
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Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.
Michael McCaul
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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.
Raymond Carver
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After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands
Wright Morris
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As humans, we have a hunger to discover something new, reach new meaning, understand better the universe and our place in it.
Edward Frenkel
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Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.
Ernest Angley
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I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
Paul Keating
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Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
Haruki Murakami
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Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.
Richard Louv