Human Beings Quotes - Page 28

• Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Love, Faith, God

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• If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

  Billy Sunday

  Prayer, Stranger, Source

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Political, Quality

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• America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

  George W. Bush

  America, Bully, Liberty

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

  Bipasha Basu

  Believe, Heart, Past

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• We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inanimate Objects, Natural, Assorted

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• Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love Is, Shelter, Unattainable

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• To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.

  Fred Allen

  Skins, Humans, Items

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• I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Crowds, Helping

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.69, New World Library

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• To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Opportunity, Tears, Tasks

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.169

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• I think that as human beings we are all different. On a third dimensional level we're all different but there are two things we share in common... one is birth, and we know about that because we've been through it, we understand it, and the other is death.

  James Van Praagh

  Thinking, Two, Different

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

  Harlan Ellison

  People, Upset, Quality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

  Harlan Ellison

  Meaningful, Couple, Fart

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 08, 2008.

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• I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Bunnies, Audience

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

  Yann Martel

  Sex, Crazy, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.

  Bill Bryson

  Jobs, Animal, Thinking

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

  Bill Bryson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Balance

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• I make many mistakes. Many mistakes. I'm not a perfect human being. I have to learn from my mistakes. And a lot of the ones I've made have been public. So I always get nervous when people speak about something that sounds like a role model, because I don't know if I've been a great role model myself.

  Naomi Campbell

  Mistake, People, Role Models

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

  Milla Jovovich

  Needs, Sand Dunes, Mongolia

  Interview with Michelle Rodriguez, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Taken, Long, Adults

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

  Jim Shaw

  Example, Earth, Aspergers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Soul, Visionaries, Moments

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• Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

  Alante Kavaite

  Order, Issues, Focus

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever.

  Drew Barrymore

  Kings, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels.

  Atom Egoyan

  Justice, Upset, Different

  "Atom Egoyan Discusses Seeking Truth With Devil’s Knot". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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