Human Quotes

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

You guys are the best. I'll see you in a couple of hours. I haven't seen another human being in 13 hours and I'm running out of bottles for my urine. Later guys!

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.