Humans Quotes - Page 22

• In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Powerful, Heart, Doe

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• That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Doubt, Anything Goes

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Waste, Too Short, Triviality

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.210, Penguin

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• People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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• Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Humility, Anti Bullying, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac, Pierre F. Limouzy (1999). “CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

  Emilie Autumn

  Pages, Sentimental, Forget

  Song: The Music I Heard Once

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• We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

  Frantz Fanon

  Believe, Assuming, Individual

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.14, Grove Press

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• I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

  Katherine Applegate

  Beautiful, Rain, Justice

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• Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Missing, Ingredients, Danger

  Barbara Tuchman (2014). “The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War”, p.295, Penguin UK

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• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.230, Macmillan

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• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

  Glen Cook

  Destiny, Insanity, Shadow

  "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

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• You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Waiting, Tears, Irony

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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• Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You live in both worlds.You can be harmed by both,and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special.

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Hero, Special

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, Thinking, Ongoing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Elephant Vanishes”, p.220, Random House

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• Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Men, Order

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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• All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Weakness, Exploits

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.256, Princeton University Press

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• Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so." "Like yourself?" "Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted." "Really," she said dryly. "Except for me," he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Solitude, Fae, Rogues

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• This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

  Neal Stephenson

  Two, Mind, Labyrinth

  Neal Stephenson (2014). “The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World”, p.214, Harper Collins

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• There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

  Pablo Neruda

  Song, Believe, Destiny

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Doubt, Way

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human could feel. He wanted them dead, tortured, even. He wanted Chuck to be happy. But happiness had been ripped form their lives. Love had been ripped from their lives.

  James Dashner

  Taken, Passion, Love Life

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.194, RH Childrens Books

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• Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

  Deb Caletti

  Buttons, Sometimes, Pauses

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, Simon and Schuster

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• The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

  Veronica Roth

  Fighting, Battle, Groups

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• Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Results, Circumstances, Worst

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• One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it.

  Stephen Fry

  Dog, Fall, Artist

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.204, The Overlook Press

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