Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Ozick

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Tim White

The key here is the sequences. It's about a mile thickness of rocks in the Middle Awash and in it we can see all three phases of human evolution.

The justice system is a human system and it is fallible.

These are human beings, that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact. As a human family, we do a lot better when we don't permit one to be destroyed.

These are human beings; that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact.

Carolyn See

'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

Eric Hoffer

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

Peter Diamandis

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

Marisha Pessl

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

Marianne Moore

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Megan McCafferty

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Maya Angelou

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Viggo Mortensen

Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character,and usually an improvement in your life.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Porter Goss

reaffirms our role as the lead for human intelligence.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Printed menus are out, human menus are in.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

The mutation that would make it spread from human to human, which is what we're worried about, is probably not enough to render the vaccine ineffective.

The most important thing was for them to see him as a human being.

Rita Ora

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.

Dito Montiel

Some people have this crazy talent that makes you tap into a human side as well, even with all their fame.

So they're going to downplay Taiwan, they're going to downplay human rights.

Jill Scott

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

Caitlin Moran

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Orlando Bloom

There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

There's a tremendous toll on the human side that start-ups take on people. And it just didn't seem like something that was being addressed.

Alex Rodriguez

There's a point where you try to be a human being and have some fun. But it's a place I won't be going back to.

Steven Pinker

All of us have a theory about human nature.

Theodore Tilton

The more we study human nature, the less we think of men - the more of man

Eric Lander

The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.