Human Quotes

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.