Quotes with semi-human

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 1426.

  • Nicolas Chamfort When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • W. Temple When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a forward child, that must be play'd with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
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  • Sir William Temple When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Bayard Rustin When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Billy Graham When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Cass Sunstein When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • James Baldwin When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Booth Tarkington When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: When I was a boy! It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • George Orwell When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Walt Disney When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Daniel Webster When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • T. S. Eliot When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Dickinson When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Audre Lorde When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Seneca Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Beeban Kidron Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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