Human Beings Quotes - Page 37

• I've got the best job in the world, and i meet some of the most amazing human beings on the planet. I'm one lucky guy.

  Ty Pennington

  Jobs, Best Job, Guy

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• Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

  Agatha Christie

  Rivers, Church, Towns

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Divorce, Parent

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• The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

  C. Sommerville

  Thinking, Years, Four

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• For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.

  Larry Niven

  Jobs, Party, Moving

  Larry Niven, John Brunner, Jack Vance (1973). “Three trips in time and space: original novellas of science fiction”

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• For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

  Simon Critchley

  Philosophy, Common, Being Human

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederstr?m, Todd Kesselman (2013). “Impossible Objects”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the problems with the scientific worldview is that it leads human beings to have an overwhelmingly theoretical relationship to the world. For example, I no longer accept my being in the world practically and then try to describe that or elucidate that; rather, I see the world theoretically as colors and objects and representations which are fed through my retina into the brain.

  Simon Critchley

  Color, Brain, Trying

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 1, 2003.

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• You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.

  James McBride

  Eye, Intelligent, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

  Frank Grillo

  Thinking, Levels, Want

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• As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Color, Should, Categories

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• I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skin Color, Skins, Care

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• It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

  Gloria Estefan

  Race, Progress, Overcoming

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Men, Inhumanity To Man, World

  "Musical Legend Herbie Hancock Fuses Jazz, Global Rhythms". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 16, 2010.

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• Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Ideas, Scratches

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• Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Running, Honor, Dying

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• I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Eight, Human Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

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• Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Friends, Insects, Draws

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• The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Trouble, Natural, Humans

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• All human beings are entrepreneurs.

  Reid Hoffman

  Entrepreneur, Humans

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.3, Random House

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• Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

  Henry Fairlie

  Bed, Looks, Breakfast

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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• To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Curriculum, Force, Humans

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• What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it

  Henri Nouwen

  Bridges, Expectations, Despair

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• Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

  John Stuart Mill

  Destiny, Class, Numbers

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.314

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• The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Heaven, Intercourse

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• Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

  Immanuel Kant

  Instruments, Ends, Should

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