Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kofi Annan

a citizen of the world in the fullest sense -- one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

Eric Ripert

The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.

Joel Edgerton

The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.

Michael O'Brien

The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.

It's rare you'll find human beings willing to take less money and derive less benefit from the sale of a business for community reasons, rather than maximize what they could do individually.

Mara Brock Akil

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

Anne Archer

I love the theme. I definitely feel we are not just our bodies, that we are beings and that we go on.

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

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.

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?

There lies within all beings an awakening. It is the hunger of life that seeks the dawn.

Robert Park

This is the way I think we'll explore the universe. We won't explore it by sending human beings out there.

Sathya Baba

If you do not love other human beings That means you do not love God.

Sathya Baba

If you honor your father, the Father of all Beings will guard you.

In this world, there is one Husband Lord, all other beings are His brides.

Edward McKendree Bounds

In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man's redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans.

In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation

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.

If God loves human beings and seeks to relate to them because he is drawn to something unique about them, then his love must be exclusive and cannot be universal.

He's one of the biggest human beings I've ever seen.

Herbie Hancock

But I'm talking about responsibility, a sense of responsibility. Developing software to help human beings develop more of a sense of responsibility. Kids need that. Adults need it too. More self worth. More self-respect.

I really try to focus on organizations, twofold, one that help people and/or beings that don't have other means of help. Particularly if they're hospitalized children, sick children, children that don't have homes, children that can't go to school, you know that's the future of this country and the future of this planet.

I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past, of the present, and those of the future, but no one really knows Me.

how deeply human beings have penetrated into all the ecosystems that we visited and to look at the relationship between human use of their habitat and their well-being.

Neil Shubin

The world is filled with puzzles, all kinds of interesting questions and it's our challenge to figure them out. It's not just like this static file cabinet of things that human beings know. It's ever expanding.

They have to be treated as real human beings with their own issues and concerns, not something that is being prepared for future use.

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.

Gray his huge. He's one of the biggest human beings I've ever seen. But he's done a great job getting his body in shape.

There's a pattern that is noxious and toxic to the traditional American way of life. This is not good for American people. You're losing food safety and property rights simultaneously. And the beneficiaries of this are not human beings with a conscious. They're corporate boardroom financial reports.