Beings Quotes

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.