Human Life Quotes - Page 26

• Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Special, Life Is

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• I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

  Tobey Maguire

  Character, Soul, Might

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• When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

  John Malkovich

  Play, Glasses, Microscopes

  "Malkovich: I don't always play the bad guy". Interview with Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2010.

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• A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

  Lewis Mumford

  Beauty, Truth, Sight

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• The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.

  Vincent Nichols

  Husband, Wife, Creative

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• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Essentials

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

  Camille Paglia

  Book, Reality, Tvs

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• I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.

  Sarah Palin

  Baby, Pro Life, Legislature

  Interview with Mike Coppock, Newsmax.com, August 29, 2008.

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Lust, Crystals

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• It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Links, Bread

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• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Regret, War, Cost

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• There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

  Karl Popper

  Political, World, Kind

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) vol. 2, ch. 25

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• Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Life, Artist, Giving

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Religious, Space, Diversity

  "Calming our fears" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2007.

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• The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Children, War

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

  Mitt Romney

  Leadership, Christian, America

  "Cnn Saturday Morning News" with Randi Kaye, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 2012.

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• War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

  Margaret Sanger

  War, Limits, Poverty

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Loss, Trying, Realization

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• The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophy, Sacred, Life Is

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• Communal well-being is central to human life.

  Cat Stevens

  Well Being, Wells, Humans

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• Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Literature, Constitution

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Peace, Ordinary Extraordinary

  "Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• All human life can be found in an airport.

  David Walliams

  Airports, Found, Humans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Progress, Evolution, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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