Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Ariely

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

Anne Bancroft

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

Salman Rushdie

wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios.

Kailash Satyarthi

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Craig Venter

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

Craig Venter

It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.

Barbara Jordan

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Kenneth R. Miller

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

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.

Saina Nehwal

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Adam Hochschild

All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.

Achim Steiner

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,

Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Abraham Maslow

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...

Aleister Crowley

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Albert Einstein

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Albert Einstein

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Aberjhani

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

A. N. Wilson

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Roxane Gay

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

Abbas Kiarostami

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

James Cameron

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Steven Hatfill

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

Tracy Morgan

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

Tommy Caldwell

I've always been really curious about the limits of human capability.

Sarah Hall

I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.