Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Rath

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

Tucker Max

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

Tacitus

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Terence

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

Sue Monk Kidd

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

William Boyd

Human beings are interested in the human condition.

A. S. Byatt

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no, all humans are equal, but not all cultures are equal.

Ben Carson

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Bill Callahan

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.

Alexander Hamilton

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

When you are as a human being in a survival mode, order disappears,

Adolf Hitler

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

Annalee Newitz

I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

Amy Lowell

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Ann Landers

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Laura Esquivel

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Terry McMillan

Every human being I know craves love and affection.

Where are these people going to be putting their human waste? Are these people self-sufficient?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

Cynthia Kenyon

It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?'... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

Paul Hawken

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

Nick Nolte

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

Peter Steele

I'm a 'specist.' I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man.

We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.

Anatoly Karpov

To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.