Quotes 761 till 780 of 1426.
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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
Doctor Zhivago -
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
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One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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