Best chance & human-beings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!”

Giving Humans Chance Human Beings Animal Function Sections Glands

Book:The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.”

Humans Matter Together Chance Human Beings Deals Class Modern Particular Conscious Contact Curious Fascination Modern Life

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.”

Humans Order Given Chance Human Beings Half Spread Confusion

Book:The Fall of the Towers

Source: The Fall of the Towers

“The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have.”

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”

People Ifs Humans Government Courses Given Chance Human Beings Theory Normal Democratic Average Bitter Democratic Government Given A Chance Bitter Experience

Book:Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

Source: Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.”

“It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.”

Men Humans Children Age Lying Speak Chance Human Beings Mere Extraordinary Old Man

Book:La vieillesse

Source: La vieillesse

“Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and replaces it with happiness, inner peace, creativity intelligence, love, energy. This fuels a real good life and fuels an appreciation for all human beings. It's so powerful and it's a blessing for humanity.”

Thinking Giving Humans Real Beautiful Humanity Energy Chance Human Beings Powerful Acting Creativity Blessing Appreciation Inner Peace Fuel Good Life Torment Treasury Transcending

Author:David Lynch

“Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.”

Years Humans Two Wanted Certain Felt Chance Human Beings Break Subjects Mines Decided Wake Up Entertainment Afternoon Bunnies

Author:Raven-Symone

“I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.”

Humans Problem Running Given Chance Human Beings Half Disease Sitting Leap Rats No Fear Foul Loaded Have No Fear

Author:David Attenborough

“If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.”

People Ifs Want Giving Humans Looks Different Chance Human Beings Animal Monsters Decent Want Something

Author:Ice Cube

“I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.”

Humans Book Reading Grows Chance Human Beings Reading Books

Author:Megan Fox

“What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.”

Giving Humans Children Chance Human Beings Tree Fairs Plant Soil

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever.”

People Mind Humans Moments Light Beautiful House Speak Chance Human Beings Streets Conversation Setting Settings Immortality Grotesque Being Beautiful

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.”

“Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place,being alive right now is the greatest gift i got from God.”

Inspirational Giving Humans Earth Heaven Born Chance Human Beings Alive Magic Higher Honor Right Now Highest Privilege Paradise Dimensions Better Place Exquisite Greatest Gifts Feats

Author:Rob Brezsny

“I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can speak or not. Whether they can hire a lawyer or not. Whether they have a birth certificate or not. And I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live.”

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