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Being Human Quotes (page 109)

That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a communion so rich and full that silence speaks more powerfully than words. Madeleine L'Engle
George Eliot quote: "A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking..."
A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass. George Eliot
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughte? Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gol?... Alan Moore
Many bad things were done under the Evil Empire" she said. "The best we can do now is undo them. Will you assist in this endeavor?" "In every way that I can" said Nutt."I would like you to teach them civilized behavior," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes, of course, I think, that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?"There was a brief outburst of laughter from Vetinari, who immediately cupped his hand over his mouth. "Oh I do... Terry Prachett
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to..."
Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? Charlotte Bronte
Norman Cousins quote: "Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement..."
Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being. Norman Cousins
In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures. Steig Larsson
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is... Salman Rushdie
My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for. Chelsea Handler
Every day, people settle for less than they desearve. They are only parially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. Bo Bennett
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.[The human element] W. Somerset Maugham
Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense and heavy clouds, are rising, slowly it is true, but not less surely, to Heaven, to pour their after-vengeance on our heads; if we heard but one instant, in imagination, the deep testimony of the dead men's voices, which no power can stifle, and no pride shut out; where would be the injury and injustice: the suffering, misery, cruelty, and wrong: that... Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one..."
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Isak Dinesen quote: "much which is unworthy in human life might be advoided if..."
much which is unworthy in human life might be advoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse Isak Dinesen
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower. Sherman Alexie

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