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Human Beings Quotes (page 62)

I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to organize other people's lives, she can't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million. She's temporarily silly, yet all the time one knows she's basically intelligent. Creative, determined to set the highest standards. A real human being. John Fowles
Stephen King quote: "They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure..."
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? Stephen King
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute Rumi
Toni Morrison quote: "It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with..."
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. Toni Morrison
Heinrich Heine quote: "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human..."
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Heinrich Heine
Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?.. It is if you become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or grass or flower. It takes time, but once the butterfly lets it guard down, you can become friends quiet naturally. Haruki Murakami
I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Bukowski quote: "Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe..."
Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass. Charles Bukowski
Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the course of passions colliding like freight trains on the same track. Sue Grafton
Marlon Brando quote: "Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as..."
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. Marlon Brando
We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that we have raised ourselves above the brutes, to the level of human beings. But we can easily become the victims as well as the beneficiaries of these systems. We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which... Aldous Huxley
Albert Ellis quote: "If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll..."
If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing. Albert Ellis
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do. Robert Fulghum
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. Haruki Murakami
I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope. Peter S. Beagle

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