Quotes of: Humans Keyword

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.

Koren Zailckas

EBOLA VIRUS put humanity at a great risk. We must act now and together to prevent further crisis.

Lailah Gifty Akita

O-Sensei was frequently head to say. 'Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to harmonize the world and make humanity one family.

Linda Holiday

First no tooth fairy then no santa and no god and then your parents are only human your government is corrupt and the universe is a hologram.

Lord Crunkington III

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Leon Kass

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

Lyle Lovett

Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat.

Luis Marques

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

Liam Neeson

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

Lewis B. Smedes

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Lucy Stone

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

Lynn Shelton

A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.

Lysander Spooner

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Lionel Trilling

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Lionel Trilling

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

Leo Tolstoy

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Leo Tolstoy

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Leonardo da Vinci

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

Len Wein

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

Liu Xiaobo

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Margaret Atwood

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Martin Amis