Humans Quotes - page 37

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws. (Tiger Woods)
President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet. View quote
Jay Inslee
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. View quote
Michael Pollan
It was a lesson he'd never forgotten. That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you'd just get tired and want it to end. View quote
Daniel Abraham
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. View quote
Daniel Abraham
Thing is, we're humans. We're tribal. More settled things are, the bigger your tribe is. All the people in your gang, or all the people in your country. All the ones on your planet. Then the churn comes, and the tribe gets small again. View quote
Daniel Abraham
The aliens that sent the protomolecule hadn't needed to destroy humanity. They'd given humans the opportunity to destroy themselves, and as a species, they'd leaped on it. View quote
Daniel Abraham
We're still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes. View quote
Daniel Abraham
Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it. View quote
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
The scientific world picture does not include ... things that have not been constructed, that are not understood as artefacts ... Instead of the final cause one starts to speak about purpose, which nature itself does not have. Only humans can set aims and achieve them by their activities if they know the laws of nature and set up various processes based on them and organise them purposively. View quote
Rein Vihalemm
Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike. Dominion, as we call this power in the Western tradition, today requires our concentrated moral consideration ... (Matthew Scully)
Foot-and-mouth disease is a form of flu, treatable by proper veterinary care, preventable by vaccination, lethal neither to humans nor to animals. These animals, millions of them not even infected, were all killed only because their market value had been diminished and because trade policies required it-because, in short, under the circumstances it was the quick and convenient thing to do. By the one measure we now apply to these creatures, they had all become worthless. For them, the difference between what happened and what awaited them anyway was one of timing. And for us the difference was visibility. This time, we had to watch. View quote
Matthew Scully
Have you noticed anything strange about him? Strange? We humans insist on inhabiting a charnel ground - isn't that strange enough for spiritual creatures without splitting hairs? He seems to be two different men. His personality switches from moment to moment. Only two? Perhaps there is something wrong with your eyes. Look more closely and you will see he changes with every exhalation. So do I. So do you. View quote
John Burdett
In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement. View quote
Michael Shermer
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders. View quote
Mahmoud Abbas
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans. View quote
Rachel Weisz
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. View quote
Haruki Murakami
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate. (James Frey)
Each creature had something it excelled at, he supposed. Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else. View quote
Jim Butcher
Perhaps it is possible for humans to change directions, to look at animals not as competitors or as yet another race to colonize, but as models for achieving something that has eluded humans for their entire evolutionary history. If animals can learn to live with other species in peace, and sometimes even in friendship, is it not possible that observing this extraordinary ability may yet act as a catalyst for us? Is it not possible that harmony among nations need be not a mere fantasy, but something we can learn from observing the achievements of these so-called lesser species? All that is lacking are the will and the humility. View quote
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Humans are great lovers of consistency, and it annoys us that cats have different rules. Even if a cat is willing to give up her life for you, that does not mean that she is willing to change her mind at your request. View quote
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
I didn't even know that chickens could fly, and suddenly one was landing on me. It happened when I was visiting a farm sanctuary. If I had been younger I would have asked my parents if I could take her home, please! After all, she chose me. Never mind that she chose everybody; she was a particularly friendly chicken. She made soft, strange cooing sounds and nestled into my arms like a happy kitten. ... In fact she was an ordinary chicken, but simply one who had no reason to believe that people were after her. This is how chickens and humans would relate to one another if one was not exploited and the other doing the exploiting. Very much like cats and dogs. They just wait for the chance. View quote
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson