Best amount & humans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it won't really make a difference. You can only absorb so much.”

Humans Differences Human Beings Buddhism Amount Making A Difference Exposed Again And Again Mystical Small Amounts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.”

“They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.”

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.”

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.”

Humans Able Records Possibility Amount Periods Instruments Accurate Human Happiness Collages

Author:Max Ernst

“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.”

Humans Able Wealth Simple Study Groups Influence Huge Amount Activity Concerned Labor Direct Enormous Income Command Civilized Peasants Priesthood Surplus Periodicity

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.”

“To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.”

Humans Quality Events Sweet Amount Needed Perfection Charity Prosperity Sunshine Moderates Juice Courtesy Peaches Human Qualities Ripening Apricots

Book:Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household

Source: Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household

“A human being can stand any amount of pain.”

Humans Pain Human Beings Amount

Author:Frank Herbert

“Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.”

Needs Humans Life Is Human Beings Consciousness Amount Enlightenment Infinite Supreme Each Day Better Life Unfolding Transcending Infinite Consciousness

Author:David Lynch

“Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.”

People Way Want Humans Long Has Beens Situation Worst Fine Amount Crave Human History Worst Situation

Author:Rob Bell

“Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.”

“We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.”

Way Needs Feels Humans Looks Mean Doe Certain Sex Natural Amount Caring Superficial Exploits Sexiness

Author:Kathy Sierra

“Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.”

Source: How to Say It, Third Edition: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation

“The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Want Humans Certain Forget Animal Effort Struggle Amount Essentials Mere Absence Remove Ingredients Indispensable Adapted Human Animal

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”

Men Humans Reality Courses Power Human Nature Amount Historical Subsistence

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.”

Men Believe Humans Soul I Believe Human Beings Common Amount Fame My Soul Common Man Stardom

Author:A. R. Rahman

“Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.”

Humans Race Atheism Amount Errors Extremes Positive Atheism Human Race Catholicism Hypothesis Allowance Fallibility

Book:History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).”

“There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.”

“Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.”

Humans Wells Certain Human Nature Amount Discipline Behavior Eternal Built Horse Mathematics Investing Stuck Predictions Human Behavior Diagnosis Basics Horse Sense

Author:Charlie Munger

“So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.”

Knows Humans Long Facts Spirit Human Beings Know How Duty Amount Sorrow Increase Spite

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.”

Humans Three Human Beings Four Food Amount Benefits Cooking Wine Glasses Illness Excellent Culinary Remedy Preservation Small Amounts

Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

“One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.”

Humans Has Beens Whole Certain Race One Thing Amount Human Race Animosity

Author:James Mercer

“Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.”

Thinking Men Humans Human Beings Views Deals Amount Civilization Point Of View Insects Fleas Mosquitoes

Book:The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

“Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.”

Humans Able Values Causes Greater Personality Amount Creatures Minors Insects Irritation

Author:Don Marquis

“In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.”

Humans War Opportunity Speak Numbers Greater Amount Threat Bounds Accidents Endeavor Imperfect Catastrophe Missed Opportunity

Book:On War

Source: On War

“I had horrible acne when I was a kid. I felt like a complete and utter ne'er do well and someone who didn't fit in and wasn't handsome. So, I understand implicitly, and with a great amount of empathy, a man or human being that feels that way.”

Men Way Feels Humans Wells Kids Felt Human Beings Amount Fit Empathy Horrible Handsome Acne

Author:Chris Pine

“...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.”

“Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake. ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception. ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!”

People World Believe Humans Different Energy Mistake Watches Fate Imagine Amount Agree Exception Different Worlds Err Is Human

Author:Veronique Vienne

“We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.”

Giving Humans Earth Spirit Order Passion Social Common Violence Evolution Amount Limits Giving Up Crossroads Social Order Human Evolution

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.”

Giving Humans Made Moments Life Is House Security Duty Amount Circumstances Everyday Painful Being True Occasions Cheerful Everyday Moments

Author:Leigh Hunt

“No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.”

Humans Amount Overcoming Determined Human Will Willfulness

Author:Max Anders

“The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.”

Humans Liberty Amount Method Institutions Fund Civilized Taxation Gross Violation Barbaric

Author:Tibor R. Machan

“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”

“So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy and fuel. But as a founder, you’re also not as cold, maybe, or as pragmatic.”

Giving Humans Energy Special Cold Amount Enormous Authenticity Factors Fuel Founders Pragmatic

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.”

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Author:James Hansen

“My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity; at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.”

“Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.”

Years Humans Hands Suffering Amount Approach Tasks Painful Clarity Ongoing Funding Inadequate Human Suffering Task At Hand

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“I think what matures us is time, not necessarily our physical bodies. So I think she can probably change as much as human would in the timespan of the show. However, I do think as a human you reach a point where there's a certain amount of humility and acceptance of life and its consequences when you see your own body change and age, and the pounds come or the wrinkles come.”

Thinking Humans Shows Body Age Certain Acceptance Humility Amount Consequence Pounds Wrinkles Physical Body Body Change

Author:Deborah Ann Woll

“I think we need that to ground us as human beings. I would imagine after an extended amount of time, a vampire might stall a little bit.”

Thinking Needs Humans Littles Might Bits Human Beings Imagine Amount Little Bit Vampire

Author:Deborah Ann Woll

“Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?”

Humans Kind Important Brain Listening Amount Models Intuition Math All Kinds Data Thought Provoking Human Brain

Author:Steve Lohr

“My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."”

“Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.”

“I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.”

Feels Humans Talent Amount Resources Egypt Human Resources

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3.8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U.S. it's able to buy.”

“My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

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