“People are afraid of change. We all are. Human beings are afraid of change, but change can be good.” PeopleHumansHuman BeingsBe GoodAfraid Of Change Author:Jeff Pinkner
“Every one of us, as human beings, even in a committed relationship, has moments and thoughts and actions that, whether or not they share them with their loved one, tells you, as much as anything, about them as people and their relationship.” PeopleHumansMomentsActionHuman BeingsShareCommittedLoved OnesThoughts And ActionsCommitted Relationship Author:Jeff Pinkner
“When you're onstage, it's a communication technique when you make people laugh. You're communicating. You're communicating with other human beings and when they laugh you know that you're connecting. Laughing is an honest reaction and it's something that I can trust, and I love that feeling of knowing that I connected.” PeopleKnowsHumansI CanFeelingsHuman BeingsLaughingKnowingHonestCommunicationCommunicateConnectedTechniqueReactionsConnectingMaking People LaughCommunicating With Others Author:Brian Regan
“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
“In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart. The characters anyway, they do represent different aspects of all of us - and put them all together, you get a human being. And so it's got a wonderful purity, a real purity that's so moving, exiting, everything.” PeopleHumansHeartDifferentRealCharacterTogetherMovingHuman BeingsWonderfulAspectDefensePurityAnimation Author:Timothy Dalton
“Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that you don't gather very much by making enemies out of people and not recognizing their humanity. Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.” PeopleHumansCertainHumanityHuman BeingsEnemyNonviolenceRecognizing Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet. I think there's a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions - and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansSoulDesireGrowsHuman BeingsSimpleLevelsEconomyGrowingPlanetsSolutionsProfoundDestroyingOur Planet Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth.” PeopleHumansI CanEarthHuman BeingsSituationPercentManageInteraction Author:Will Smith
“I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansLooksPersonsNaturalHuman BeingsPoliticianTendenciesSubtleUrgesCampsSophisticatedSeniorStereotypeCommentatorsClassification Author:Tony Abbott
“Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.” PeopleMenWayFirstsHumansYoungHuman BeingsProtectPaperLaborUnionsTheeYoung ManCommunistBusinessmanPapersProtect YouLabor Union Author:Jack Kirby
“Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.” PeopleIfsWantTryingYearsHumansBigsSeemsEvilPresidentHuman BeingsSpaceHellHappenedWeaponsMiracleBe GoodNobleNuclearRussiaImpulseNuclear WeaponsButtonsOuter SpaceTombstoneAmerican PresidentCosta Rica Author:Stephen King
“I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.” PeopleFirstsHumansRealHappensJobsActorsHuman BeingsSawsFrontsReturnBecomingDirectorsPerformancesCamerasAuthenticityFreezeNewcomers Author:Steven Spielberg
“I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.” PeopleThinkingHumansProblemHumanityEvilEnergyDarkHuman BeingsMetsIllAffectionEnormousFlawedMentally IllDark Energy Author:Richard Gere
“It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all - they're long lost dance partners. I don't divide the world up into Christians and other people - we are all human beings, brothers and sisters, and we embrace truth wherever we find it, whether that's in a lab, a field or a cathedral. Because sometimes you need a scientist and sometimes you need a poet.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsHumansLongSometimesChristianLostHuman BeingsFieldsPoetBrotherConflictScientistEmbracePartnersAbsurdTragicDividesBrothers And SistersPitsLabsCathedralsDance Partner Author:Rob Bell
“Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.” PeopleHumansEarthNationsChallengesHuman BeingsGrandkids Author:Barbara Boxer
“The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.” PeopleHumansPurposeHuman BeingsLaborImmigrationBordersUsaIllegalStatus QuoHiringTrafficking Author:Marco Rubio
“I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansHuman BeingsPlanetsBe Good Author:Assata Shakur
“As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.” PeopleHumansImportantEarthHuman BeingsAnimalImaginePlanetsConsciousReach OutSolar System Author:Steve Martin
“I went to a heavy metal concert. The singer yelled out, "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" And then he said, "How many of you feel like animals?" The thing is, everyone cheered after the animals part, but I cheered after the human beings part because I did not know there was a second part to the question.” PeopleKnowsFeelsHumansSaidHumorFunnyHuman BeingsAnimalHeavySingersTonightConcertsMetalsHeavy Metal Author:Mitch Hedberg
“You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.” PeopleWayGivingHumansKindFactsHelpingSpiritualHuman BeingsFulfillmentCompassionateHelping PeopleMake You Happy Author:George Lucas
“I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.” PeopleGivingFirstsHumansBigsJobsActorsStarsHuman BeingsActingHollywoodCaughtProfessionTitlesCaught UpHollywood Stars Author:Denzel Washington
“I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.” PeopleHumansAbleWantedCultureHuman BeingsGroupsMonthsSixJokesResearchStructureAtmosphereDirtySix MonthsDirty Jokes Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.” PeopleIfsNeedsHumansHeartOrderHuman BeingsFailingBetray Author:Desmond Tutu
“There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.” PeopleFeelsHumansHuman BeingsConsumedHorrific Author:Wole Soyinka
“Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.” PeopleThinkingMindHumansBookIdeasMatterFactsBigsAgeBeautifulCertainDiesStrongHuman BeingsHealthyStandardsWeakIllnessUglyTheme Author:Mary Gaitskill
“Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting and juicy and appealing, and we're attached to these things and they're so fascinating and beautiful - I don't just mean model-beautiful, but all the individual forms that people can take.” PeopleHumansLooksMeanDifferentBeautifulFormIndividualVoiceHuman BeingsModelsExcitingFascinatingJuicy Author:Mary Gaitskill
“My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital to human beings. Even my appreciation for wilderness grows out of an understanding of how important wilderness can be for people.” PeopleWorldHumansImportantValuesGrowsUnderstandingHuman BeingsAppreciationWildernessMotivated Author:Tim DeChristopher
“Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.” PeopleHumansValuesOpportunityCommunityHuman BeingsQualityRolesCitizensComfortMembersAddictionConsumersMentalityConvenienceQuality Of LifeReconnecting Author:Tim DeChristopher
“The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.” PeopleWayHumansDifferentStoriesUseTurnsLanguageGrowsHuman BeingsAbilityGrowing UpListeningCreaturesComplexesBeing DifferentEloquent Author:Flemming Rose
“It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and rob and rob the food out of baby's mouths, so it's incumbent on every new generation to develop a social conscience and to really defend themselves. And that takes demonstrations sometimes.” PeopleGivingHumansSometimesSocialSidesDarkHuman BeingsGenerationsBabyMouthsConscienceStealingDemonstrationDark SideNew GenerationIncumbentsHoot Author:Luis Valdez
“There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.” PeopleHumansHuman BeingsPlanetsGeniusCommodityPsychoticParasites Author:Alex Jones
“Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.” PeopleHumansRealSeemsHuman BeingsHollywoodFertileReal HumanTightsFertile Ground Author:Ramin Bahrani
“I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingYearsHumansKindBookEndsDreamCertainFatherHuman BeingsFictionCompassionWinterFinishedPityComplimentJournalNon Fiction Author:Paul Auster
“The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.” PeopleHumansMadeEndsHuman BeingsPrinciplesMoralityRespectToolsToleranceGladOppressionFree WillAffirmationRespecting OthersHideous Author:Felix Adler
“Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.” PeopleWantHumansMatterNamesIndividualInterestHuman BeingsTrendsMacro Author:Seth
“If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'” PeopleIfsMenWantHumansLooksRealActionHuman BeingsUnhappyTolerateOutrageFuriousIndignationReal MenReal HumanReal Women Author:Stephane Hessel
“We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you will helplessly believe what I believe. I will give you my reasons and reasons are contagious. That is what it is to be a rational human being.” PeopleIfsGivingBelieveHumansReasonEnoughBeliefI BelieveHuman BeingsRationalGood EnoughEvaluateContagiousRespect People Author:Sam Harris
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWritingHumansChildrenLongTwoStoriesAsksSpeakCausesHuman BeingsPartyGeniusCircumstancesNormalAnxietyDistanceSentencesAsk MeInterviewsNativeSubmitTelephonesPatheticDistinguishedGood StoryLong DistanceImpliedSocial AnxietyInsert Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.” PeopleThinkingShouldHumansGovernmentTermHuman BeingsSuckerProletariatMug Author:Graham Greene
“We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration.” PeopleHumansFactsSpiritualSpiritRealizingChallengesHuman BeingsRacePossibilityAreasCapacityFortunateHuman RaceExplorationEfficiencyFractions Book:New Bottles for New Wine: Essays Source: New Bottles for New Wine: Essays
“Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up. Here you could love human beings nearly as God loved them, knowing the worst: you didn't love a pose, a pretty dress, a sentiment artfully assumed.” PeopleHumansEarthHeavenSidesHuman BeingsKnowingWorstDressesInjusticeCrueltyGod LoveSentimentsElsewhereMeannessHeaven On Earth Author:Graham Greene
“It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingHumansReasonHelpingProblemSufferingUniverseHuman BeingsMoralityConcernRewardsCreatorAvailableNobleHelping OthersLinkages Author:Sam Harris
“I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.” PeopleFeelsTryingBelieveHumansRealPastUniverseHuman BeingsEventsSucceedAngryDon't BelieveGuiltyBuddhistFrustratedRoutesOblivionSlidesClevernessPast Events Author:Robert Reed
“I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.” PeopleHumansEyeEarthHuman BeingsTalesFairyFairy Tale Author:Ben Folds
“Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.” PeopleWritingHumansDifferentHuman BeingsInterestingAttitudeHugeSexualityConsistentConsistentlyTopics Author:Ben Barnes
“I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.” PeopleIfsThinkingHumansIdeasPoliticalSocialHuman BeingsLevelsSerious Author:Ziggy Marley
“The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.” PeopleWorldMindHumansMayDoeDifferentHelpingShowsFilmGoalBlackDifferencesHuman BeingsWhiteCommonRolesWatchesTelevisionUltimateCastsGangUltimate GoalCultural Differences Author:Mekhi Phifer
“People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHumansParentInterestHuman BeingsCreativeRaisedPatternsMysteriousCuriousImpulseAtmosphereMechanismSpontaneousDeliciousShrinksAdventurousTickHuman Psyche Author:Jeff Goldblum
“Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.” PeopleNeedsHumansMadeHuman BeingsCapitalismTriumphFewer Author:David Simon
“I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.” PeopleNeedsFeelsBelieveHumansSometimesEvilHuman BeingsDecisionViewsPoint Of ViewMaliciousBad Decision Author:Dane DeHaan