Quotes of: Human Keyword

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Benjamin Haydon

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Charlotte Bunch

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

E. M. Forster

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Ray LaMontagne

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Andrew Weil

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Michael Leunig

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Armistead Maupin

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Bob Brown

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Murray Kempton

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Rose Kennedy

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Liya Kebede

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

Amy Bloom

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

Ray Stevens

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Henry Ward Beecher

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

Monica Johnson

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

James Joseph Sylvester

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Michael Polanyi

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.

Rick Perlstein

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Laurence Olivier