Human Quotes

And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.