Quotes of: Humans Keyword

[last lines] Professor Levy: [voiceover] We are all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions. Moral choices. Some are on a grand scale. Most of these choices are on lesser points. But! We define ourselves by the choices we have made. We ar...

Crimes and Misdemeanors

John Keating: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and neces...

Dead Poets Society

Elle Driver: [reading] "The venom of a black mamba can kill a human in four hours if, say, bitten on the ankle or the thumb. However, a bite to the face or torso can bring death from paralysis within 20 minutes." Now, you should listen to this, 'caus...

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Jack Crabb: Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now? Old Lodge Skins: Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, ...

Little Big Man

Jack Crabb: I know of a white man who is as brave as any Human Being. His name is General Custer. Old Lodge Skins: I would like to meet this man and smoke with him. What does his name mean? Jack Crabb: It means 'Long Hair'. Old Lodge Skins: Good name...

Little Big Man

[first lines] Sarah Connor: [narrating] Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. The computer which con...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the digital age, follow this simple remedy: remember that you dream. For that is ironclad proof . . . that literature—that narrati...

Adam Hammond

As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of...

Barbara Bush

The monster, Hitler, died like Uther, frightened, hiding, haunted by his crimes and his wholly reasonable belief that all decent human beings would turn their backs on him. Who really cares where Hitler’s bones lie, or how he died, as long as he is...

Love

Having experimented in both poetry and prose, I can say that the two are such loaded words. But neither are quite as weighted as the word “poet”. I think some people can write poetry their whole lives, and never truly BE a “poet”. Whereas I s...

Love

People get their benefits as individuals but we all pay the cost together, same as the doomed mice of Gough island. The problem is not just fossil fuel emissions either, humans are killing rhinos, elephants, gorillas, and countless other endangered a...

Love

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior, by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatev...

William Faulkner

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Cease and Desist

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

Celebration of Discipline

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The Complete Essays

...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.

The Celestine Prophecy

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....

Collected Poems

The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

This incomprehensible war would take from him even the humanity to find it incomprehensible.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

Critical Path

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet