Top 100 In Human Quotes
#1. I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.
Tom DeLonge
#2. He flipped his spiked tail straight into the air in what could only be interpreted as an obscene gesture.
Rexi duplicated it in human form. "Right back atcha.
Betsy Schow
#3. Being funny is one of the ultimate weapons a person can have in human society.
Jerry Seinfeld
#4. Listening to all words
the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture
can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.
Kathleen Norris
#5. Everything which has been done so far in human history has been able to be done because all were possible!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
Niels Bohr
#7. There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.
Charles Dickens
#8. We like to think that we are thinking people. We are largely not. In human communication feelings always trump thinking and values trumps everything.
Dennis Cogswell
#9. Q: How can I help myself?
A: By remembering the proverb: 'The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service', from Saadi.
Idries Shah
#10. The mere fact that this thought has sprung up among different nations and at different times indicates that it is inherent in human nature and contains the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
Nelson Mandela
#12. Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to the core of psychodynamics, the formation of the human character, is a study in human self-limitation and in the terrifying costs of that limitation.
Ernest Becker
#13. For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.
Anthony Esolen
#14. Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.
Ralph Barton Perry
#15. I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!
Ryan Hall
#16. These old houses are only brick and wood, soaked in human sweat, grained with human dirt.
Virginia Woolf
#17. Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.
Robert A. Heinlein
#18. The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. (in discussion with Franz Marc who demanded in 'Der Blaue Reiter' around 1912 a new art, in relation to its own - changing - time).
Max Beckmann
#19. Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.
Robert Heilbroner
#20. The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)
Paulo Coelho
#21. The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.
George Roche III
#22. Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
Miguel De Unamuno
#23. My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
Lin Yutang
#24. It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
E. O. Wilson
#25. So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
Alexandre Dumas
#27. There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.
Romulus Linney
#28. Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.
'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.
'There's a library?'
'Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.
Ransom Riggs
#29. It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly
#31. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is the most fascinating subject that I have ever encountered in human health!
Steven Magee
#33. What is a bow and arrow? It is the beginning of the end. It is the winding path that grows to the roaring road of war. It is a plaything and a weapon and a triumph in human engineering. It is the first faint stirring of an atom bomb.
Clifford D. Simak
#35. Just pretend," Kronos insisted. "Once he's in human form and sitting next to you, I'll jump out
Rick Riordan
#36. It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel
#37. Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
John Berger
#38. The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether
James Denney
#39. The avalanche of prefabbed, precooked, often portable food into every corner of American society represents the most dramatic nutritional shift in human history.
Melanie Warner
#40. It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.
Carl Sagan
#41. Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
Nathan Myhrvold
#42. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Isocrates
#43. Religion has at one time or another been thought to fill four main roles in human life: explanation, exhortation, consolation and inspiration.
Richard Dawkins
#44. Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
Nicholas Kristof
#45. Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.
Bryan Chapell
#46. The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.
Lillian B. Rubin
#47. Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
Henry James
#48. Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.
Lech Walesa
#49. In human affairs, we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged, we keep in order, what has gone amiss we improve or change, what we cannot change and improve we bear, overcoming all trouble and sustaining all by prayer. Against such forces there is no help but prayer.
Martin Luther
#50. There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
Milton H. Erickson
#51. Axl Rose is the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs in human form.
Chuck Klosterman
#52. ...the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things.
C.S. Lewis
#53. As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
Emily Greene Balch
#54. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
#55. Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
Maurice Strong
#56. As time went by, matters improved; the armies, especially the British and French Armies, became better at staying alive while killing larger numbers of the enemy which, though hardly a matter for satisfaction in human terms, is what well-trained armies are supposed to do.
Robin Neillands
#57. Lust magic is the same as date-rape drugs in human court, Uncle Taranis.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#58. Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
Kevin Kelly
#59. Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies; and that there is a resonance between the way we think and the way the world works.
Carl Sagan
#60. When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.
Sharon Salzberg
#61. "There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."
Albert Einstein
#62. The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#63. It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting ... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction ... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships ...
Mervyn Levy
#64. When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne
Winston Churchill
#65. When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature-
Lucinda Riley
#67. I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.
Susanne Bier
#68. One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.
Matthew Desmond
#69. When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death.
Rosario Dawson
#70. All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
Friedrich Engels
#71. Clarity is blinding and can be the most destructive element of all in human relations.
John Peter Nettl
#72. We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
Jeremy Rifkin
#73. There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.
Joyce Brothers
#74. The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
#75. We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.
George W. Bush
#76. Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#77. All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
James Madison
#78. Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges
battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.
Billy Graham
#80. There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.
Steven Magee
#81. If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
Barry Commoner
#82. War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
Immanuel Kant
#83. God's solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father's love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that's the heart of the Christian story.
Peter Kreeft
#84. We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emil Cioran
#85. We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.
Jane Goodall
#86. To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes.
Albert Einstein
#87. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
Ayn Rand
#88. My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.
Stanislaw Lem
#89. The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.
Patricia Wentworth
#90. Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, just as much as differences in knowledge and skills - and such differences create differences in economic outcomes.
Thomas Sowell
#91. There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
John Stuart Mill
#92. Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#93. Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.
Ellen DuBois
#94. The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#95. And in that hour,
The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
To such gigantic and enormous growth,
Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
Hence date the persecution and the pain
That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
Regardless of their plaints.
William Cowper
#96. Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?"
"Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.
F.E. Higgins
#97. Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed ... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.
D.H. Lawrence
#98. Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning of civilization until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history.
Mark Kurlansky
#99. There are many religions in the world, and they have developed because various people have had various ideas about God. Christianity makes a unique claim ... we can know God because He came to us in human form in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#100. Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.
Gerry Spence
