H Quotes
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“Humans were monsters but also perfect creations.”
Source: Leave the World Behind
“Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.”
“Humans were not to be toyed with, they were to be respected.”
Source: Masquerade
“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”
Source: Inhuman
“Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.”
Source: Sample of the CITYs
“Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.”
“Humans were strange but endearing creatures.”
Source: Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“Humans were such tricky and complicated things.
As it began to spin life and being out of its dreamstuff, the remaining trees began to hum and sing together. Once upon a time, their songs had sounded different, but in this time, they sang the songs the Greywaren had given to them. It was a wailing, ascending tune, full of both misery and joy at once. And as Cabeswater distilled its magic, these trees began to fall, one by one.
The psychic's daughter's sadness burst through the forest, and Cabeswater accepted that, too, and put it into the life it was building.
Another tree fell, and another, and Cabeswater kept returning again and again to the humans who had made the request. It had to remember what they felt like. It had to remember to make itself small enough.
As the forest diminished, the Greywaren's despair and wonder surged through Cabeswater. The trees sang soothingly back to him, a song of possibility and power and dreams, and then Cabeswater collected his wonder and put it into the life it was building.
And finally, the magician's wistful regret twisted through what remained of the trees. Without this, what was he? Simply human, human, human. Cabewaster pressed leaves against his cheek one last time, and then they took that humanity for the life it was building.
It was nearly human-shaped. It would fit well enough. Nothing was ever perfect.
Make way for the Raven King.
The last tree fell, and the forest was gone, and everything was absolutely silent.
Blue touched Gansey's face. She whispered, "Wake up.”
Source: The Raven King
“Humans were walking wounds and sometimes, they shared.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Humans were wired to always seek more, look for the next thing, aspire for the unattainable. I wanted peace. But peace could not be found in any object or accomplishment.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Humans who are in positions of power make the rules, and therefore their interests almost always come first—no matter what the cost to anymals and less powerful human beings.”
Source: Animals and World Religions
“Humans who continued lactase production were more likely to suffer when meat and plant material were unavailable. Genetic testing indicates that lactase persistence evolved separately among subgroups of Europeans and Africans, illustrating the strong environmental pressure for phenotypic processing of milk products based on cultural practices. In culture that do not practice dairy farming, such as many areas of Asia, lactase persistence is low.”
Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“Humans who have thrown away their hearts are the most powerless creatures on the planet.”
Source: Riki-Oh, Vol. 8
“Humans who prove unfaithful to their warehouses are rarely heard from again.
-Mating Rituals and Love Customs of the Were”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
“Humans who prove unfaithful to their werespouses are rarely heard from again.
-Mating Rituals and Love Customs of the Were”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
“Humans who see something different than them want to hate it and tear it down. Britain had a government policy that allowed prejudice to destroy someone's life, and today there is still homophobia at home and elsewhere, like Russia or Greece. It's still a relevant discussion. While women have it better than the 1940s or '50s, sexism is still prevalent.”
“Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.”
“Humans who walk in this earth realm without God's agape love in their heart, walk in the darkest of places with no light, blinder than ones without natural sight. Love issues from the heart core center where all of life's issues reside. Do everything you can to live with your whole heart; and ascend your precious soul!”
“Humans will add value where machines cannot. As we encounter more and more artificial intelligence, real intelligence, real empathy, and real common sense will be scarce. The new jobs will be predicated on know how to work with machines, but also on these uniquely human attributes.”
Source: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
“Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that stems a little pessimism and negativity that all of us are susceptible to.”
“Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.”
“Humans will be the hope to the humans – humans will be the help to the humans. That is the world I dream of and that is the world I work to build.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.”
“Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct. It depends what "eventually" means. But the idea that were going to be around for the rest of global history...I don't think there's any scientist who would suggest that is true. It could be millions of years from now. We may leave descendants that are humanlike.”
“Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart”
“Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.”
“Humans will stop acting like robots (cashiers) vs self-checkout and work will be strategic and anything that doesn’t require repetition. Ironically, humans will become less robotic (industrial revolution turned us into robots) and we will become more artful, thoughtful and creative...because we have to...bots will do all else.”
“Humans will strive to do whatever it takes to survive, including acts that appear immoral, such as pre-emptive violence. The human moral compass fluctuates in the course of existence, and good governance is the best means to limit the excesses of human nature.”
“Humans, with some exceptions, are a bit more complicated than rabbits.”
Source: Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
“Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.”
“Humans without borders, that's what the world needs - beings of conscience and courage, with no rigidity of religion, gender, nationality, or any other.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity”
“Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.”
“Humans without humanity, trouble in the World for eternity.”
“Humans without humanity, war_torn world for eternity”
“Humans would become very sick without natural radio frequency (RF) exposures.”
“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time.”
Source: Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.”
“Humans, not places, make memories.”
“Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.”
Source: Living in Hope and History
“Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.”
Source: Vacation
“Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.”
Source: The Mercy Thompson Collection
“Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.”
“Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.”
“Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!”
“Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.”
Source: Accelerando
“Humanure composters can stand under the stars at night gazing at the heavens, and know that, when nature calls, their excretions will not foul the planet.”
Source: The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
“Humaya Gardens has hundreds of other narco tombs in its sun-beaten soil. It is one of the most bizarre cemeteries in the world. Mausoleums are built of Italian marble and decorated with precious stones, and some even have airconditioning. Many cost above $100,000 to build—more than most Culiacán homes. Inside are surreal biblical paintings next to photos of the deceased, normally in cowboy hats and often clasping guns. In some photos, they pose in fields of marijuana; in other tombs, small concrete planes indicate the buried mafioso was a pilot (transporting the good stuff).”