Beings Quotes

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.

All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.

Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.

It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.

The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.

I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.