Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

Clifton Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Doris Lessing

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Ed Greenwood

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

Hill Harper

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

Cindy Crawford

You don't have to do the picture, you have to do the autograph, but it's important to take that moment to make a human connection.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom

With 31 sites of avian influenza, Romania runs the risk of human contamination at any moment.

Rufus Sewell

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

Almost any job can make us better human beings if we do it with passion.

Charles Stross

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

Ronda Rousey

Fighting is not a man's thing, it is a human thing.

Matthew Arnold

But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon.

Andy Serkis

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.

Judith Butler

It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.

Pico Iyer

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

Patti Smith

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.

Ryan Coogler

Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.

Richard Lewis

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Malala Yousafzai

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

Patricia Cornwell

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

Evelyn Waugh

To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom

We needed to go into that locker room with a smile. Human nature says, too, that after going through what we've been through, you need to go into the locker room and smile and pat each other on the back a little bit.

Hannah Murray

Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.