Beings Quotes

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

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.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

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.