What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Being vulnerable doesn’t make you weak. It makes you human.

Every ascent is a testament to the power of human determination and spirit.

Translation is a very profound human experience.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

Through fasting…I have found perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

Music is what makes us human.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that’s nice, we’re also human beings.

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren’t happy with.

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

The name Emmanuel takes in the whole mystery. Jesus is “God with us.” He had a nature like our own in all things, sin only excepted. But though Jesus was “with us” in human flesh and blood, He was at the same time very God.

There are very few people that actually live their life in a Mother Theresa kind of benevolence. And even bad guys are often trying to be the “most right” version of themselves. So I’m trying to explore what basically makes these guys human.

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

HGH was responsible for human growth, and lack of it caused dwarfism, or too much of it caused NBA players.

Acting is a journey of self-discovery; every role is a new chapter in understanding the human experience

I’m an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Happiness is the gift of friends; it is born out of human relationships

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

I simply fail to see how the act of legally formalizing a human relationship necessitates friends, family and co-workers upgrading the contents of their kitchen for them.

Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.

When they want to do a thing, in business of course, they must wait till there arises in their brains, somehow, a religious, or ethical, or scientific, or philosophic, concept that the thing is right. And then they go ahead and do it, unwitting that one of the weaknesses of the human mind is that the wish is parent to the thought.

After all the human noise and conflicts have stopped, the absent person has more room in your heart to spread out and be herself. My mother’s been gone ten years and I know her much better now than when we saw each other every day.

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail

And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived.

A wolf does not think like a human.

Fairy blood does not make you clumsy. That’s human.

I don’t feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that’s quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

My thesis is that for us as human beings there are two fundamentally opposed realities, two different modes of experience; that each is of ultimate importance in bringing about the recognisably human world; and that their difference is rooted in the bihemispheric structure of the brain. It follows that the hemispheres need to co-operate, but I believe they are in fact involved in a sort of power struggle, and that this explains many aspects of contemporary Western culture.

Human kindness was like a sun shining upon him, and he flourished like a plant in good soil.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.”

Isn’t it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself

I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We’re putting it into pamphlets. We’re doing a publicity show. We’re becoming symbols.

I feel it’s important to show that one thing that you do doesn’t define you as a human being. It doesn’t mean there aren’t ramifications or you shouldn’t pay for that but, its not who you are.

Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

I’ve learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are.

People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these mortals, but they don’t make it into the history books much. They don’t do anything sweeping or controversial. They live their lives, contribute their bits of good work, and die quietly in their beds without recognition or reward. Usually.

Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there

Humans Have Voids, And You Need Things To Fill Voids. I Didn’t Have A Dad To Fill That Male Model Void, So When I Heard Eminem Or Freaking Seen Dave Chappelle, That’s What I Gravitated To.

It aint about black or white cause we`re human.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

I soon saw why humans prefer to draw an arbitrary line between themselves and other animals. Had humans been used as these animals were used the only appropriate descriptive word would have been ’torture.

“Give me liberty or give me death.” A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into.

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens.

Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speak universally to man

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion

Human nature is not of itself vicious

In literature, we find the universality of human experience

Writing is a way to explore the human condition

A novel is a map of the human heart, a guide to the depths of our emotions

Literature is a celebration of the human spirit, a testament to our capacity for creativity and empathy

A good novel is like a mirror that reflects the complexities of human existence

Since philosophy is a piece of human character, it merits a spot in the realm of endless facts.

In my own view, Hamas’ disappointment gets from an absence of legitimization by Israel and by a great part of the world. It is this disappointment that leads them to such ruinous urgency. That is the reason we have to give them status as a real adversary – before we talk about an understanding or, on the other hand, about a frontal war.

Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

Perhaps the most valuable of all human possessions, next to an aloof and sniffish air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Of the 1,223 new medicines developed between 1975 and 1997, just 13 were for tropical diseases. Only four sprang from the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to cure humans. None were found on purpose

It is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them.

She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality

When I write a play or a novel, I write the ending and am responsible for it. Tolstoy has every right to throw Anna Karenina under the train. She begins in his imagination, and he has to take responsibility for her until the reader does. But the life of a living human being, no one writes it. You cannot deal with another human being as though he were a fictional creation.” (In an interview with David C. Estes)

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The true strength of the human intellect lies not in seeing what is immediately before us, but in anticipating what comes next.

Fact takes no heed of human hopes.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men at a distance.

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to killc

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate … the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

A spectacle … full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Favor comes because, for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress, some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have.

When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars – on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.

The blue-sided human will choose a side. When four princes are born on the same day, they will rule true. Her saviour will die when the choice is made.

No human is limited.

I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited.

I’ll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

The law of nature cannot allow all human beings to think together. In breaking the two-hour barrier, I want to open minds to think that no human is limited.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

No human being is illegal.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing.

Religion, to have any force upon men’s understandings,–indeed, to exist at all,–must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdist thing in the world,–an acknowledged cheat.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organized in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years unless we spread into space.

I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.

Religion gives inspiration to act well. Not only that, it gives inspiration to the arts and to many other activities of human beings.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I will never reject an autograph, hug or photo. I was also a fan of football.

Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was not a star. I arrived at Old Trafford as just another young talent. He was the one who told me to do all the right things. He gave me the opportunity to play in one of the biggest clubs in the world. So he is one of the most important people in the world for me. I worked with Sir Alex for a few years and I know he deserves ­everything that he has achieved in his career. He works so hard, he is clever, he has experience, he is a human guy.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way. God can give us the perfect way.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.