Quotes of: Human-species Keyword

Sexy Stud: So, where're we doin' this thing? Randal Graves: Oh, right inside the restaurant. Sexy Stud: You're kidding. Randal Graves: Not spacious enough? Sexy Stud: No, it's plenty spacious, just kinda weird, isn't it? Randal Graves: Kinda weird? Y...

Clerks II

President Nixon: You want to make a statement? Kill me, fine! But spare everyone else! Erik Lehnsherr: Very heroic, Mr. President. But you have no intention of sparing any of us. The future of our species begins now! [gets distracted, Mystique reveal...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

John's master, in allowing his slaves to marry, was much more liberal than most slave owners, who allowed their slaves no such liberty. As a rule negro men were not allowed to marry at all, any attempt to mate with the negro women brought swift, sure...

Love

Hang you, DeVere! She's a close friend, nothing more." He furrowed his brow once again. "Though I do fear of late that she entertains some...expectations." "You think the young widow may aspire to quite another surrogate role? They all do, ol' chap. ...

Victoria Vane

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and th...

Walter Scott

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Caravan of Dreams

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

City of God

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

A Child Called "It"

Innards came out crossed and complex, like a tumble of plus and minus signs--the equation of human life.

Cattle Cult! Kill! Kill!

people say life is short. life's not short—it's the memory of a human being: that's what's short.

Collected

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

Catch a Mate

Cayl replies...I understand the human reproductive system, Agent Denning; I’m here to capture a killer, not indulge in these intrusive human senses.

Collective Memory

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

Cryptonomicon

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Cutting for Stone

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

The Denial of Death

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Dearly Devoted Dexter

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean

There is no fixed formula for prayer. It has to be spontaneous, sincere, and affectionate. It is an over pouring of human spirit to God

Dolmens in the Blue Mountain

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

The Devil's Punchbowl