Quotes of: Human-strength Keyword

Dad instantly set out his stall:he wanted a big dog, a 'man dog',a dog that if it was human would enjoy a pint and stare at the barmaid's arse

Look Who It Is!: My Story

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

The Last Werewolf

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

The Law

Human love didn't eradicate God, but it put Him into His proper distant second place.

The Last Werewolf

'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

Lexicon

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.

Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.

MILA 2.0

I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies. Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms, that was time when I lost my arrogance as human.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The time will come that humans will be able to grasp the true essence of matter, so they will no longer need their physical bodies in order to live and to exist in this universe.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

God didn't create universe in six days of human measure. God's still working, then hasn't yet reached the seventh day.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.

My Family and Other Animals

Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion...

Midnight in Austenland

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky...

Mars Beckons

Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.

Moments of Being

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Speak, Memory

Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person.

Searching for Schindler: A Memoir

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People

What if experience is disappointment, and a human’s old age has not a sense and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?

The Sunless Parlour