Quotes of: Human-being Keyword

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

John Ortberg

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Dean Koontz

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Gabriel Heatter

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

Jamie Lee Curtis

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

Paul Begala

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

Elizabeth Strout

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Elvis Presley

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Curt Flood

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Cynthia Ozick

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Clay Shirky

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

Harold Pinter

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

Julian Assange

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Ben Whishaw

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Gary Hamel

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

Gene Hackman

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

George Orwell

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

Harry Lorayne

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Harry Lorayne