Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1482.
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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour
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There's no map
And a compass
Wouldn't help at allSongs Human Behaviour (single; 1993) -
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars - on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
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They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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They're pretty extreme, but I loved the two 'Human Centipede' films from Tom Six. Those movies are fun because they're well-made. They're crazy and psychotic and perverted and twisted, but they're really well-made.
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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
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This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
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