Quotes of: Human-being Keyword

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Blood Memory

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

Christo

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Anne's House of Dreams

We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

HOA Wire

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.

I Am a Cat

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

Intercourse

The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.

Jane Austen And Her Art

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Jane Eyre

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

Notes from the Cafe

But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It's what being human is all about.

Naked on the Moon

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

No Name in the Street

A real, true love that makes a human being believe in the power of destiny happens only once in a lifetime.

The Lover from Fifth Avenue

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.

The Little Silkworm

It was as natural as breathing to all human beings, and to all warm-blooded creatures, for that matter, to wish quick deaths for monsters. This was an instinct.

Slapstick or Lonesome No More!

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Song of Solomon

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.

Styles of Radical Will