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“I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.”

Thinking Humans Space Emotional Involved Highest Lows Flight Endeavor Lowest Space Flight

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.”

People Feels Years Humans Lasts Spirit Lost Bits Opinion Periods Lows Champion Optimist Human Spirit

Author:Jude Law

“I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.”

Humans Form Voice Opinion Messages Lows Human Life Mail Hostile I'm Sad

Author:Ben Brantley

“The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.”

“Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.”

Humans Principles Human Nature Pride Spring Lows Weakness Negative Ancestry

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.”

Men Humans Doe Humanity Water Human Nature Goodness Lows Flow

Author:Mencius

“I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.”

People World Humans Action Natural This World Lows Resources Intention Complaining Tolerance Pool Good Intentions Natural Resources

Author:Cindy Gallop

“Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.”

“It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.”

Men Humans Kind Fall Sex Levels Destiny Lows Scales Cultivation Kind Man

Book:Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789