Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Hawken

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.

Paul Auster

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.

Rachel McAdams

I would like to think I would rise to the occasion, but it's just interesting to me how powerful human beings can be when pushed to their limit and I really wanted to find it realistically that she could fight back, that she could take the skills she had learned just from being a hotel manager and turn them around and actually escape the situation.

The 8.4 millions species of beings die, and die again, and are born over and over again.They are consigned to reincarnation.

The angelic beings and the silent sages long for Him; the True Guru has given me this understanding.

That's the law, but the jury has 12 human beings on it.

The one who sees the imperishable Supreme Lord dwelling equally within all perishable beings truly sees.

Joseph Rotblat

We appeal, as human beings to human beings. Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open for a new paradise; if you cannot there lies before you the risk of universal death.

Guru Nanak

Those humble beings engage in the Lord s trade, who have the jewel of such pre ordained destiny upon their foreheads.

Those humble beings are true and immaculately pure, meeting them, all filth is washed off.

Rick Brunson

We're all human beings and we all got feelings. I just felt good about Seattle. They brought me and my wife out there and took us to dinner. No one had ever done that for me before.

We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.

Goldie Hawn

It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

Jeremy Grantham

We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

George Orwell

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The light of those mortal beings is immaculate. They depart after redeeming their lives.

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with fragmented views of society. But what it does to everyone, it does to women even more.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Social classes, races, Muslims and Hindus; beasts, birds and the many varieties of beings and creatures; the entire world and the visible universe - all forms of existence shall pass away.

Adoniram Judson

That mighty Being, who heaped up these craggy rocks, and reared these stupendous mountains, and poured out these streams in all directions, and scattered immortal beings throughout these deserts - He is present, by the influence of his Holy Spirit, and accompanies the sound of the gospel with converting, sanctifying power.

Gilbert Murray

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

A full jar has been placed upon Time; him, verily, we see existing in many forms. He carries away all these beings (worlds); they call him Time in the highest heaven.

People think that homeless people are not human beings and that it's OK to hurt them and, most importantly, they think they can get away with it.

Voltaire

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Dont fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reachingfor the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

Scott Turow

Criminal law in particular does indeed present human beings in extremis. You're always dealing with definitions of evil.

Cass Sunstein

a simple brain freeze, the sort that all human beings are subject to. On the other hand, it is at least mildly embarrassing to make a mistake of that magnitude.

Fidel Castro

This graduation was just a dream nearly seven years ago, ... Today is proof of the capacity of human beings to reach the most lofty goals.

Al Leiter

They talk about payroll and who gets paid what, ... (But) you still got to do it, and it's human beings doing it. There's no robots. And it just so happens that the other team in the other dugout wants to kick your butt, too. And (the Angels) can be pretty good, which they are. And we're standing in the parking lot.

Janette Turner Hospital

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

Robin Williams

They make these outrageous comedies and just use these kids as props. They're not beings who are transforming.