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Humanness Quotes (page 115)

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating. Carrie Fisher
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "In the human heart one generation of passions follows another;..."
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something..."
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep. Eleanor Roosevelt
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods. Agatha Christie
Sherwood Anderson quote: "People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in..."
People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast. Sherwood Anderson
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle,..."
But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. Gilbert K. Chesterton
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. Mercedes Lackey
Joseph Wood Krutch quote: "The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the..."
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit. Joseph Wood Krutch
The law presumably says that it is finest to keep as quiet as possible in misfortunes and not be irritated, since the good and bad in such things aren't plain, nor does taking it hard get one anywhere, not are any of the human things worthy of great seriousness.... One must accept the fall of the dice and settle one's affairs accordingly-- in whatever way argument declares would be best. One must not behave like children who have stumbled and who hold on to the hurt place and spend their time... Socrates
David Foster Wallace quote: "The other half is to dramatize that we still 'are' human..."
The other half is to dramatize that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be. David Foster Wallace
Alexander Dumas quote: "All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope."
All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope. Alexander Dumas
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology Noam Chomsky
What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description…we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason. Aristotle
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good. Iris Murdoch
Joseph Stalin quote: "Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being."
Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being. Joseph Stalin

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