Quotes of: To-err-is-human Keyword

The breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with a kind of trembling grace and turning their pale stamens towards the ground. The sun shone through them, revealing a pattern of inter...

Irène Némirovsky

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, classism, and all other forms of human discrimination, speciesism involves vi...

Gary L. Francione

I would never speak about faith, but speak about the Lord himself - not theologically, as to the why and wherefore of his death - but as he showed himself in his life on earth, full of grace, love, beauty, tenderness and truth. Then the needy heart c...

George MacDonald

It’s like, it doesn't honor God to pretend like everything is OK. That’s the beauty of Jesus that so many people miss. The beauty is that he died on the cross for our sins, but also that he existed the way we exist. He understands what it’s lik...

John Mark McMillan

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirt...

Douglas Adams

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, an...

John F. Kennedy

Voice on Recorder: I believe I have made a significant find in the Kandarian ruins, a volume of ancient Sumarian burial practices and funerary incantations. It is entitled "Naturum De Montum", roughly translated: Book of the Dead. The book is bound i...

The Evil Dead

Veronica Quaife: You're changing Seth. Everything about you is changing. You look bad. You smell bad. Seth Brundle: I've never been much of a bather. Veronica Quaife: Those... weird hairs that were growing out of your back. I took them to a lab. I ha...

The Fly

Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibri...

The Matrix

As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intel...

Anonymous

Does a cat know he is a cat? Does a dog know he is a dog? Does nature know it is called nature? Does this planet know its name Earth? Does Sun know its name and its category as a star? Does Universe know that it is Universe? Does God knows that he is...

Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You deeply despise the human race, at least our part of it; you think it not only fallen but incapable of ever rising again... For my ...

Alexis de Tocqueville

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

City of God

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father

I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section.

Dad Is Fat

Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.

Defenders

We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.

Dispelling Wetiko

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Eeeee Eee Eeee

Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.

Eve's Apple: A Novel

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel