Human Quotes

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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.

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

Any human being has private thoughts.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.