H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Humans have real superpowers and when I see my dad, and saw my dad, work with communities and help people change viewpoints, and lead people in healing and guide them through troubled waters in their lives, that represents to me a real world wizard - if you want to look at it with prismatic eyes. That's what they're talking about you read about a magician.”
“Humans have strayed so far from the notion that food is medicine, they think it’s reasonable to place pharmacies in our food markets. Think about that one.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“Humans have the ability to rewrite history. Within a few decades it is not even questioned. Stories of the past become as real as the world you walk through today. Wars are waged over false history. Sins are denied. All for mankind to move forward and feel comfortable about its past. Your true history is written in the stars. Look up, breathe in, and be humbled by the ones who came before you. The ones who have suffered, who have endured, who have overcome. Their blood is alive in you. Their spirits roam freely in the heavens above.”
Source: When The Cedars Shade Your Grave
“Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.”
“Humans have this remarkable ability to know and not to know at the same time. Or more correctly, they can know something when they really think about it, but most of the time they don't think about it, so they don't know it. If you really focus, you realise that money is fiction. But usually, you don't focus. If you are asked about it, you know that football is a human invention. But in the heat of the match, nobody asks you about it.”
Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.
-Aras”
Source: City of Pearl
“Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.”
Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
“Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.”
Source: The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs
“Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently resolved in terms of what allowed it to be manipulated. The will must have done something to surrender to the presence of the demon. You have to resurrect the moral authority of the person's will.”
“Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their
actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to
nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time
finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.”
“Humans hold limited knowledge of the universe; thus, humans cannot measure all subjects in their large-scale dimensions on this planet. As a fact, humans fall under natural restrictions and limits, whereas limitations cannot generate and reach the measure of all things.”
“Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.”
“Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.”
“Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.”
“Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.”
“Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.”
“Humans insist on defining reality by their standards. They are poorly equipped to do so, since they are selectively deaf and blind in one eye. They are beings with an insatiable need to categorize the universe that surrounds them, but demand that the facts reveal a universe suited for human cultivation and exploitation. Things must remain status quo.”
Source: Sunglasses After Dark
“Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.”
Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet
“Humans just make excuses to not blame themselves”
“Humans knew a long time ago that everything was connected. They also knew that plants and animals communicate with each other….”
Source: Joey and His Friend Water
“Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.”
“Humans learn to adapt despite anything and everything.
Every blow, every strike, every catastrophic, life-levelling event—you just carry on, because what’s the alternative?
But it doesn’t make it hurt any less.”
Source: Harper's Landing
“Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices.”
“Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.”
Source: Railsea
“Humans, like other animals, depend on belonging somewhere.”
Source: Goddess Complex
“Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.”
Source: Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel
“Humans like to consider everything as linear, when in reality everything is cyclic.
They are obsessed with straight lines. Straight roads, straight houses, straight pieces of steel, glass, and timber. Straight cut diamonds. Let’s get straight to the point. Be straight with me. I am straight, not gay.
And this is how they see their lives. A linear journey, along the road of life. That is where expressions such as Highway to Hell come from.
But what about other expressions, such as the life cycle, the cycle of nature, and the weather cycle?
Because of this obsession with straight lines, they view history and historical events, as existing way back along an imaginary path, one they are sure they are far away from. Like watching a fading wake from a ship.
So when they look at the religious wars, for example, the Christians versus the Muslims, the rise and fall of Empires, democracies and dictatorships, they seem blind when comparing present day situations with those of the past.
The majority of humans see evolution as a race along a straight race track, a race they are winning by a long margin, yet they are afraid to ever slow down, in case other life catches them.
If they did slow down long enough, they may observe that the track is actually cyclic.”
“Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.”
“Humans listen to their hearts so fucking loud that they mute their dumbass brains.”
“Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.”
Source: DUNE
“Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.”
Source: Ghostwritten
“Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.”
“Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.”
Source: The Widow's Son
“Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.”
Source: How to be Wild
“Humans living and dead might suddenly turn on you, but wild things just lived on in their brute, wild way, caring nothing for you. When they died, they left no ghosts.”
Source: A Skinful of Shadows
“Humans look just like livestock now. We achieve a state of buttery plumpness before we've even reached sexual maturity. We experience powerful cravings for food that is slowly making us sick. We are...programmed to eat the wrong food. We aren't born calorie zombies, but that's what we have become.”
Source: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
“Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.”
“Humans make a city, but a city makes humans tolerate the intolerable.”
Source: The Sky Is Yours
“Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting.”
Source: The Girl at Midnight
“Humans make boxes, put themselves into those boxes, then pull other people in along with them. Everything I do and everything that I am, are the results of climbing out of their boxes and then not allowing myself to be pulled into new ones. Because once you are freed from one, there is always another, and yet another, box that some human will try to pull you into. Especially in the society which I live: a giant box filled with a hundred million tiny boxes, all trying to trap you inside them. And some will tell you that God is in their box with them! Bloody hell of a lie. God cannot be found inside of their cubicles.”
“Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes.”
“Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us.”
“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”
Source: Capital
“Humans make us animals, while animals make us humans.”
“Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.”
“Humans may be evil and greedy at times, but I take it as me being honest with myself.”
Source: 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1 ～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～
“Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.”
“Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.”
“Humans measure things.
Dogs just move.
Joy isn’t stored in a trophy.
It bursts midair
when the paws leave the ground.
There is no shame in bounding toward nothing.
There is no failure in missing the ball.
The game is the game
because it moves.”
Source: The Tao of Dogs
“Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.”