Human Beings Quotes - Page 6

• Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Successful, Interesting, Way

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• True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

  Bertrand Russell

  True Happiness, Godlike, Humans

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.238, Routledge

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• Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!

  Paul Celan

  Earth, Humans, Tall

  Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”

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• Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Art, Nature, Men

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• Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!

  Paris Reidhead

  Death, God, Religious

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• ... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Disappointment, Business

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• Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

  Dennis Altman

  Identity, Matter, Manipulation

  Dennis Altman (1974). “Homosexual; oppression and liberation”, Lane, Allen

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• ... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Pain, Lines, Able

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• We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

  Howard Gardner

  Focus, Needs, Want

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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• Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'

  Adyashanti

  Tree, Insane, Rotten

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• How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Book, Knowledge, Cutting

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• Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Work, Organization, Groups

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• One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Faults, Weakness, Purpose

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• If you run across a dog driving, would you ever forget that? You could never forget that, that bump. It'll haunt you for the rest of your life. Imagine if you killed a human being. You're not going to forget that. Well, I killed many.

  Daniel Inouye

  Running, Dog, Bumps

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

  Gene Robinson

  Passion, Hard Times, Devices

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• Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

  Kara Walker

  Silhouettes, Stereotype, Reduction

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• I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Grateful, Smell

  "Lust for words, and ice-cream too" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.

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• 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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• We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

  John Clute

  Vision, World, Way

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• I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

  H. L. Mencken

  Young, Energetic, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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

  People, States, Humans

  Julian Fellowes (2006). “Snobs: A Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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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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