“Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.” ShouldHumansMeanSoundHuman BeingsOne ThingBirthFactorsBleakUnifying Author:Nick Cave
“Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.” WritingHumansCharacterHuman BeingsActingWrittenOne ThingShallow Author:Kari Matchett
“I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.” WayHumansPersonsMadeTogetherLife IsIndividualGrowsHuman BeingsCasesOne ThingRelationMysteriousGentlenessBearableLife TogetherUnbreakableMysterious WaysUnbreakable Bonds Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.” PeopleHumansDoeFormSocialWealthHuman BeingsAnimalNumbersStruggleOne ThingPaperClothesLowsSymbolsTitlesHumankindPlatesLicenseBadgesPrecedenceStand For SomethingLicense Plate Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.” WayHumansHas BeensSeemsIndividualProcessHuman BeingsOne ThingHeightPremisesSomething BetterPresumption Book:Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays Source: Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays
“Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.” PeopleWayHumansFactsHuman BeingsPracticeOne ThingHuman NatureBisexual Author:Gore Vidal
“As long as I'm living, I'm always going to try and become and get to whatever is next. Even when I become this one thing, when I get there, I'm going to try and become something else. As human beings, as long as we're alive, we're forever becoming.” TryingHumansLongNextHuman BeingsForeverAliveOne ThingBecoming Author:Stacy Barthe
“Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.” NeedsHumansWaterHuman BeingsCommonOne ThingBlessingSavingCurseConservationWhalesSave A LifeReefsMarshesCoral Reefs Author:Alexandra Cousteau
“I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.” HumansIdeasNextHuman BeingsEmotionRecordsOne ThingOne DaySitting Author:Lauren Mayberry