Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Whyte

To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

Dag Hammarskjold

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

Daisaku Ikeda

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

Daphne Guinness

Human beings all mimic each other.

Corrie Ten Boom

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

Coretta Scott King

Violence diminishes our humanity.

Confucius

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

Confucius

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Confucius

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Dana Snyder

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

Dallas Willard

And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

David Gemmell

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

David Baldacci

Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.

Anna Pavlova

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Angela Carter

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Anthony Burgess

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Henry A. Kissinger

Kay ennobled all of her human relationships, ... In the pain of this moment, none of us would trade places with those whose lives were never touched by Kay Graham.

Harvey Ball

just reflects what is inside every one of us - a smile is what we want to see when we look at another human being.

I think issues of human rights have to be taken seriously and I think they will be addressed seriously in the discussions we will be having, not in a token way,

He was a wonderful human being. We're all going to miss him.

John Clarke

Greenways are paths where the natural and human landscapes coincide.

Seth Shostak

Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport?

Dan Gilroy

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

Muhammad Yunus

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Susanne Bier

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Elian Gonzalez

This wasn't the right way to do it ... A human being would not have done what they did,

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.