Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Jami Gertz

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Jane Smiley

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Bill Maher

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

Ludwig von Mises

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Andrea Dworkin

Touch is the meaning of being human.

David Coverdale

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

Jean Anouilh

Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

George Bernard Shaw

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Mariella Frostrup

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Ernest Cline

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

John Irving

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Rachelle Lefevre

I'm obsessed with being human.