Humanum Quotes

#1. [My] rheumatism has come in again"

Ivan, cynically, "The devil have rheumatism!"

"Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and I take the consequences. Satan sum et nihil humanum a me alienum puto."*

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

Seneca.

#4. Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

Kenny Smith

#5. I looked down both ends of the alley. To my left, two men had entered the alley. Their tense body language made me think they meant malice. Plus, what the hell were they doing walking like badasses down an alley when it was pouring rain?

Dennis Liggio

#6. Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.

Anita Baker

#7. Sex sells, but doesn't work so well as a strong-arm tactic. Give me your purse or I'll make out with you so hard.

Dov Davidoff

#8. The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Dorothy Richardson

#9. Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

Pete Carril

#10. I think being on 'Glee' is such a great experience, but I think the best part was when I did 'All By Myself', because I love that song.

Charice Pempengco

#11. What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#13. Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Russel Honore