Human Being Quotes (page 100)

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• happy
• wellness
• time

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. Ivan Turgenev

• earth
• growing up
• courage

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. Helen Hayes

• love
• humanity
• people

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. George Orwell

• him
• humanity
• jokes

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. George Orwell

• humanity
• pinch
• humane

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. George Orwell

• writing
• humanity
• fly

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. George Orwell

• good
• humanity
• war

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell

• humanity
• society
• little

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. George Orwell

• political
• death
• women

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. Ida B. Wells

• soul
• busy
• humanity

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. Olivia De Havilland

• mindfulness
• humanity
• thinking

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. Rose Tremain

• life
• humanity
• character

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through. Edward James Olmos

• wonderful
• country
• quality

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope. P. J. Harvey

• choices
• nature
• responsibility

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. Arnold J. Toynbee

• humanity
• intelligent
• degradation

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. Simone Weil