Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Yong Kim

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Paul Hirsch

They are all human beings there, ... I think it played significantly in the final decision.

The way I see it, it is a fantastic building. I saw it as a parable of how human beings tend to be. On the outside, they look capable and strong but on the inside there's a sadness and darkness.

Dwane Casey

Tony Parker is probably one of the fastest human beings in the world. He puts so much pressure on the defense when he is coming at you.

The threat of bird flu is now getting closer to the human species. The possibility for the virus to pass from infected animals, which haven't shown symptoms, to human beings has increased.

Grimes

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

Jamais Cascio

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

Human beings aren't perfect; we're working out kinks and trying to eliminate potential errors,

Human beings are easier to hunt than deer.

Justin Welby

Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

Sam Brownback

Human cloning is the deliberate creation of a human life for utilitarian purposes. That life is created simply for research or for the benefit of another. Any time in history when we have subjected one class of human beings to enslavement by another class has been wrong.

Ciaran Hinds

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

The agriculture industry and the fast food industry and McDonald's need to recognize we workers are human beings and adults. They need to stop treating us like children who can be just pushed off to the side.

Pankaj Mishra

Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.

Do not speak thus, Subhuti ! Yes, even then there will be of beings who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will understand their truth. For even at that time, Subhuti, there will be Bodhisattvas. And these Bodhisattvas, Subhuti, will not

Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.

Charlie Chaplin

It seems our laws are always telling us what not to do - are always keeping us from enjoying ourselves. Human beings are made just as much for having fun as goose-stepping and sweating in factories.

George Nethercutt

It was a pleasant surprise that there are fine people here, good human beings who have the best interests of the country at heart.

Seamus Heaney

It was like a moment of exposure to interstellar cold, a reminder of the scary element, both inner and outer, in which human beings must envisage and conduct their lives.

It may be more than the law should expect of the human beings who sit on juries.

Jeffrey Lurie

It's an important night for the Eagles because we are recognizing truly one of the greatest football players in the long history of the National Football League and also one of the finest human beings in the long history of the National Football League.

Arthur Caplan

It's hard to look back and remember how surprising and shocking that was -- that human beings can actually be made outside the body.

It's such a simple idea: two mikes, two chairs, two human beings looking into each other's eyes,

All beings in this world are in utter ignorance due to the delusion of dualities born of likes and dislikes, O Arjuna.

All beings and creatures, wealth and property belong to Him. O Nanak, it is so difficult to describe and contemplate Him.

All beings and creatures live by breathing, but He could keep us alive, even without the breath. O Nanak, as it pleases the True Lord, He gives us sustenance.

Herbie Hancock

The mixture of all kinds of things, all kinds of beings - it's just like what we have here in this country.

Herbie Hancock

Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking human beings and saying, what can you do with that.

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Be kind to all beings - this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and the giving of charity.

Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.

Kim Ki-duk

I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.