Human Beings Quotes - Page 22

• To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

  John Updike

  Dream, Reality, Men

  "Why Updike delved into suicide killers' psyches", www.today.com. June 28, 2006.

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• I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

  A. R. Rahman

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook ... when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.

  Sherry Turkle

  Thinking, Ironic, Faces

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• There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Water, Sugar, Digestion

  "World Chefs: New cookbook spills the beans ... on beans". Interview with Patricia Reaney, in.reuters.com. February 28, 2012.

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• We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

  Arthur Golden

  Growing, Way, Remarkable

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.268, Random House

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• Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

  Youssef Ziedan

  Religious, Real, Structure

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• Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

  Julian Fellowes

  Passion, Being In Love, Reality

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• Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Fashion, Expression, Way

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• I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

  Sybil Marshall

  Children, Integrity, Hard Work

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• The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

  Michael Parenti

  Christian, Fashion, Political

  Michael Parenti (2010). “God and His Demons”

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• The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals but between tribes and nations and this group and that group and so on. But change can come in only when people start with themselves.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Groups, World

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Love Is, Together

  "Interview with Paulo Coelho: best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Ideas, Mind

  Source: blues.gr

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• I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Masculinity, Prove

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• Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!

  Willis Earl Beal

  Intuition, Musician, Entertainers

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism.

  John Maus

  Laughing, Rejection, Alive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.

  Maya Tiwari

  Knowing, Physicians, Genius

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

  Walter Hill

  Drama, Action, Situation

  Source: collider.com

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• I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

  Lauren Bacall

  Husband, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.

  Nate Parker

  Psychosis, Who We Are, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Solitude, Break, Humans

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• Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Important, Encounters

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• Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Christian, Citizens, Wealth

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• Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Weakness, Faces

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• Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

  Albert Einstein

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.10, Open Road Media

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