Human Quotes - page 17

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. (Carson McCullers)
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. View quote
Cass Sunstein
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. View quote
Caleb Carr
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life. View quote
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. View quote
Dalai Lama
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. View quote
Anna Sui
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. View quote
Ruth Benedict
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. View quote
Marc Bloch
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights. View quote
Lisa Kudrow
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. (Cleveland Amory)
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. View quote
Nam June Paik
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. View quote
Winona Ryder
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. View quote
Pythagoras
I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that. View quote
Halle Berry
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. View quote
Mel Brooks
One does not become fully human painlessly. (Rollo May)
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. View quote
Rollo May
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. View quote
Daniel Webster
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. View quote
Daniel Webster
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer