Famous Quotes & Sayings

I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.

Patricia Schroeder

I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

Peter Senge

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.

We just didn't make the play or the pitch we needed to win the game. You're not a human being if that doesn't sting.

Scott Stossel

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

Scott Baio

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.

Sebastian Faulks

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

Scott Bakula

It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain.

Orlando Bloom

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Peter Singer

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Paul Bloom

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

Patrick O'Brian

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

Olivia Newton-John

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Helen Clark

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

Maulik Pancholy

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

My stepson is a caring, considerate, worthy human being.

Evelyn Glennie

My whole life is about sound. It's what makes me tick as a human being.

My vision of a real humanity is of a world consisting not of families, not of nations, not of races, but only of individuals.

Marjane Satrapi

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

Philipp Meyer

My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.

D. H. Lawrence

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

Albert Schweitzer

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

E. M. Forster

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Douglas MacArthur

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

Don DeLillo

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

Donald A. Wollheim

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Daniel Quinn

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Douglas Coupland

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Douglas Coupland

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.