Human Quotes - page 19

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear. (Shirin Ebadi)
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. View quote
John Williams
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. View quote
George Eliot
Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. View quote
Humphry Davy
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. View quote
Norman Cousins
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. View quote
J. G. Ballard
The human voice is the organ of the soul. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. View quote
Karel Čapek
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. View quote
Karel Čapek
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. View quote
Georges Rouault
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. View quote
Simone Weil
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. View quote
Simone Weil
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. (Christian Dior)
Amiable weaknesses of human nature. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. View quote
Bruce Lee
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe