“Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.” MindHumansChildrenGamesDifficultHuman BeingsFantasyParticularSpeciesRevengeTerroristChecksVideoExacting RevengeFabricate Author:Alan Dean Foster
“The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.” HumansHumanityHuman BeingsConditionsTaughtParticularPlanetsBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsHumansHuman BeingsMoralWrittenParticularDirectorsPrejudiceWhat You WantAcknowledgeAppropriateAcceptableAssassinsHuman Needs Author:Joe Mantello
“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.” HumansChildrenHandsHuman BeingsConditionsParticularModelsDrawingHuman ConditionAdorationOld Woman Author:Frederick Franck
“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.” HumansMatterTogetherChanceHuman BeingsDealsClassModernParticularConsciousContactCuriousFascinationModern Life Author:Louis Auchincloss
“I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.” WantHumansKindWantedFoundHuman BeingsActingEffectsParticularImpression Author:Paul Scofield
“By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsBelieveHumansMeanWholeHandsDesireForceWishHuman BeingsMillionsParticularHabitEthicsAssumingDevotionBlockNationalismInsectsInseparableDesire For Power Author:George Orwell
“At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.” PeopleIfsWantShouldHumansKindSaidBeliefHuman BeingsPracticeAtheismParticularWelcomeInsanityCompassionateBelief In GodIrrationality Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.” WantWritingHumansHappensHuman BeingsStepsParticularSentencesGood WritingTake Control Author:Ralph Fletcher
“An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.” IfsMenFirstsHumansMayDoeArtistHuman BeingsLeaderForeverParticularMediators Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.” HumansArtSelfSpiritHuman BeingsResultsCreationParticularDestructionDividedRestraintSelf DestructionSelf Restraint Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.” WayFeelsHumansMomentsHuman BeingsParticularDiscoveryConcernPoetry IsDiscovering Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming