Human Quotes

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

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.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.