Humans Quotes - Page 21

• As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

  Karl Barth

  Giving, Inability, Recognition

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• It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Successful, Tears, Lines

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2011). “Ship Breaker: Number 1 in series”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Character, People

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• When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.

  John Green

  People, Miracle, Nerd

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• Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Animal, Turns, Elders

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

  Dean Koontz

  Reflection, Devil, Brutality

  Dean Ray Koontz (1991). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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• I need dating advice. Fast.” Ash arched a single brow at that. “I’m useless. I’ve never been on one.” The three human men turned to gape at him. “What?” Ash asked them defensively. Nick started laughing. “Oh man, this is priceless. Don’t tell me the great Acheron is a virgin?” Ash gave him a droll look. “Yeah, Nick. I’m lily-white.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, White, Laughing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.117, Macmillan

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• ...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

  Leon Trotsky

  Doe, Exhaling, Crisis

  Leon Trotsky (1972). “The first 5 years of the Communist International”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Ideas, Mind, Opinion

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• Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Emotion, Wonder, Made

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.747, Vintage

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• I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

  Roald Dahl

  Kindness, Simple, Thinking

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• Actually,” I said, hesitant to bring it up, “I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human.” “Or witch?” Ivy said, surprising me. There was a soft vulnerability in her and I blinked. “You don’t want to be a witch,” I said quickly. “Why not? You are.

  Kim Harrison

  Thinking, Ivy, Why Not

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• Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have to pay retail!" "What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy." I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. "Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about?" "That's it, baby doll," he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me.

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Compassion, Voice

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Black Magic Sanction”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

  Niall Ferguson

  Emotional, Swings, Roots

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• Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs. “So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Rocks, Humanity, Vampire

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• A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

  Alain de Botton

  Suicide, Animal, Inability

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mistake, Divine

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.88, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)

  Paul Goodman

  Lonely, Believe, Ideas

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.124, New York Review of Books

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• You are not human,” the demon announced. “You have no soul.” “Thank you for the obvious. Did you know you have horns on your head?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Demon, Horns

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.200, Macmillan

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• There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Life And Death, Imperfection

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• They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Looks, May

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• The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shape—a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.

  Janet Frame

  Cutting, Men, Hair

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• Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication.

  Kim Harrison

  Communication, Magic, Hungry

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• People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

  Tammara Webber

  People, Needs, Splits

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• Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

  Aberjhani

  Nature, Fear, Humanity

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