Humans Quotes - Page 30

• Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

  Steven Pinker

  Average, Principles, Groups

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.449, Penguin

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• Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

  Rachel Joyce

  Unique, Stranger, Being Human

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• Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no fear that I cannot understand, no suffering that I cannot care about, because I too am human. No matter how deep his wound, he does not need to be ashamed in front of me. I too am vulnerable. And because of this, I am enough. Whatever his story, he no longer needs to be alone with it. This is what will allow his healing to begin. (Carl Rogers)

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Men, Humanity

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• The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Heart, Butterfly

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• Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.

  Kristen Britain

  Memories, Past, People

  Kristen Britain (2011). “The High King's Tomb”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Country, Enemy, Spirit

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.213, Penguin

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• Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Sports, Crazy, Wrestling

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• I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think of me. He didn't know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not. In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. If he'd tried to apologize, or told me he love me, or even smiled. it would've felt fake. Like human dad, making some lame excuse for not being around. I could live with that. After all, I wasn't sure about him yet, either.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Son, Thinking

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• Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

  Anais Nin

  Giving, Hats, Strange

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• Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.

  Laini Taylor

  Eye, Fighting, Army

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• In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

  Dan Simmons

  Grease, Meat, Foam

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.254, Spectra

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• Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Book, Suffering

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Help: The First Essential Prayer”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• She's too young. Too innocent. Too human. For what I'm becoming.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Becoming, Innocent, Young

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.51, Delacorte Press

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• Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

  Chris Colfer

  Emotional, Guilty, Being Human

  "Chris Colfer Vents His ‘High School Frustrations’ In ‘Struck By Lightning" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood for thousands if years, was saying back at her: You wanna dissolve this city, Dirt Face? Give it a shot. In other words, it was the Coach Hedge of mortal cities- only taller.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Years, Civilization

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• I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.

  Jim Butcher

  Spiritual, Needs, Belief

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Age, Nylon

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

  Vaclav Havel

  Identity, World, Way

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.31, Routledge

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• I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being

  Louise Rennison

  Ice Cream, Human Beings, Ice

  Louise Rennison (2012). “A Midsummer Tights Dream (The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, Book 2)”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

  Alan Watts

  Race, Cells, Organization

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.34, Souvenir Press

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• mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!

  Derek Landy

  Letting Go, Sacrifice, Games

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• The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Pigs, Doors, Cottages

  Vivian Vande Velde (2010). “Cloaked in Red”, p.104, Marshall Cavendish

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• Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation

  Kiersten White

  Beautiful, Powerful, Animal

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• Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Believe, Depth, Safe

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• The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Helping, Human Nature, Moments

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.69, HarperCollins UK

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