Quotes of: Human-being Keyword

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

Les Misérables

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

The Last Four Things

I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

Mister God, This is Anna

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Stranger in a Strange Land

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half." ~ Emmeline Pankhurst

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

Spontaneous human combustion is for superstitious atheists. I believe in deliberate human combustion.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

Solitude: A Return to the Self

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. - Winston Churchill

THEIR LAST SECRET: DECLASSIFIED

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

Orlando

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

The Power and the Glory

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Reflections on the Human Condition

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

A Treatise of Human Nature

... human nature is much the same everywhere..." - Ms. Marple, The Thumb Mark of St. Peter, Pg. 69

The Thirteen Problems

You can't put a price tag on human life. But if you could, I'd demand coupons for clones.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience