Human Beings Quotes

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

I think we need that to ground us as human beings. I would imagine after an extended amount of time, a vampire might stall a little bit.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

It doesn't matter where you come from or who you think you are, we're all human beings with beating hearts.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

Human beings are fundamentally good.

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.

People are human beings.If you are nice to me, than I am nice to you. I live by my mother's advice, which is that the Golden Rule is the way to go.

An angel is a nonphysical being who has no ego - so we know angels are not human. An angel is a pure essence of the Creator's desire to connect with human beings.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.