Humans Quotes - Page 15

• What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's human!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Teeth, Littles

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• V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos." "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries ago." She whistled. "God, you live that long?" "Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.

  J.R. Ward

  Tattoo, Lying, Fighting

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• So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Men, Justice

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

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• We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.” “Are you saying you are monsters?” “I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, War, Hero

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3314, Bantam

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• I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Feel Better, Names, Scientist

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 98), 1963.

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• Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Land, Safety, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2008). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.105, Zondervan

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• She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Betrayal, Kindness

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

  John Christopher

  Choices, Mind, Analysis

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• Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Divergent, Poison

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2011.

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• The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

  Margaret Atwood

  Betrayal, Evil, Doubt

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Feelings, Special, Human Beings

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.444, Macmillan

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• The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.

  Thomas Friedman

  Views, People, Poverty

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• Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Giving, Empowering

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Humanity, Toil, Extravagance

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Morning, Fifteen, Next

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• So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

  Ann Brashares

  Self, Usual, Routine

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• Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Emotion, Vulnerable

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• He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Knowing, Air

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• I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

  Vaclav Havel

  Helping Others, People, Needs

  "The Language of Hatred, Increasingly Normalized by Trump" by Michael Gerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 2, 2017.

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• His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

  Veronica Roth

  Space, Long, Gone

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Collector's Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

  Charlaine Harris

  Mind, Comment, Tolerable

  Charlaine Harris (2006). “Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.173, Penguin

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• I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

  Bertrand Russell

  Father, Hate, Pride

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.289, Routledge

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• I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Breathing, Miracle

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.68, Ivy Books

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• Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Speech, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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