Being Human Quotes - Page 11

• Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

  James Earl Jones

  Cutting, Important, Speech

  "A Lifetime of Achievement, but James Earl Jones Isn't Done". Interview with Susan Wloszczyna, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2009.

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• Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Ideas, Humans

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

  Alanis Morissette

  Level Playing Field, Levels, Might

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• There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

  Layne Staley

  Song, Months, Messages

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• … but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

  John Irving

  Form, Humans, Exhaustion

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• Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you're a person and the next day they tell you you're a dog. At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.

  Nicole Krauss

  Dog, Loss, Next Day

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

  Douglas Coupland

  Mom, Unique, People

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• How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Grief, Blue

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• It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Two, Brain, Would Be

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.

  Rumi

  Wine, Night, Clouds

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Men, Blame, Humans

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2002). “Liar's Game”, p.91, Penguin

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• But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Pain, Loss, Fate

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• Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.

  Douglas Coupland

  Grief, Sadness, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Loneliness, Terrible, Humans

  A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Dragon and the Unicorn”, GuildAmerica Books

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• Touch is the meaning of being human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Humans

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.

  George Ogilvie

  Strong, Thinking, Order

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• Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a'   l'espe'  ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e  chappe me"  me a'   l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Thinking, Kind, Moments

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• Star Trek was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And Twilight Zone is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from Being Human sit down and have marathons to get our little Twilight Zone fix.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Stars, Twilight, Down And

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• Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Pain, Humiliation, Poisonous

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• He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.

  Bob Marley

  Mistake, I Love Him, Thinking

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• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  Salman Khan

  Fashion, Simple, Jeans

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• They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boys, Men, Land

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2630, eBookIt.com

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• We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Organization

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• You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, School, Asking

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