Human Beings Quotes - Page 34

• I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.

  Dane DeHaan

  Believe, Views, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Ideas, Listening, Consumption

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Fiction, Firsts

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• I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

  James Ellroy

  People, Embrace, Fluid

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Believe, People, Evil

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• [America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.

  Kesha Rogers

  Teaching, Discovery, America

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• To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?

  David McCullough

  Book, Reading, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.

  Bernie Siegel

  Pain, Animal, Hands

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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• I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it. It's very difficult to be a nun, or to live a religious life. It's very difficult to live a life of total celibacy or a life without any possessions or material responsibilities at all, or in total obedience to somebody else, and remain a mature whole human being, and I knew that I wasn't going to be one of those.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Responsibility, Mature

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If I was being perfectly honest, which I'm not going to be, I think the movie touches on a lot of things that we all went through... the first kiss, which was more than a first kiss for Harry [Eden], and those electrifying moments when you're a teenager that form who you are as a human being. I think those, for me, are what Baillie captured so well.

  Daniel Craig

  Teenager, Kissing, Thinking

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  House, Passing Away, Meat

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.475, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?

  David Attenborough

  Running, Clever, Numbers

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• Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

  Carl Sagan

  Comfort, Cosmos, Fleeting

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.361, Ballantine Books

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• The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

  Peter Robinson

  Age, Extravagance, Levels

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• As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Able, Helping

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• You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Years, Numbers

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4122, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

  Fred Rogers

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

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• I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
  I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger.
  I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
  Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being.
  Never this broken.

  Suheir Hammad

  Gun, Order, Broken

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• Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

  Celedonio Romero

  Spiritual, Language, Music Is

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• For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Love Is, Important, World

  Rudolf Steiner (1998). “Love and Its Meaning in the World”, p.9, SteinerBooks

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• ... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

  Ashley Montagu

  Principles, Development, Guides

  Ashley Montagu (1970). “The Direction of Human Development”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

  George W. Bush

  America, Bully, Liberty

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

  Bipasha Basu

  Believe, Heart, Past

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Love Is, Shelter, Unattainable

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