I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P. Adams
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Edgar Allan Poe
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Germaine Greer
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
William Shakespeare
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
Ho Chi Minh
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
T. S. Eliot
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen Hawking
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
Scott Westerfeld
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Alfred North Whitehead
All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
To err is human, to purr is feline.
Robert Byrne
The music was human; the static was natural.
John Updike
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
An incredible wealth of human kindness.
Charles Kuralt
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G. K. Chesterton
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Albert Camus
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Matthew Arnold
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Thomas H. Huxley
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas A. Edison
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Gore Vidal
The image is one thing and the human being is another, it's very hard to live up to an image.
Elvis Presley
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma Goldman
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
George W. Bush
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
George W. Bush
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
Frank Borman
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
Sigmund Freud
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
John Erskine
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
Bertrand Russell
It looks like he fell asleep. We're looking at human error as the cause.
Manuel Gonzalez
Human destruction is the most critical factor in the fate of the pandas, ... If biodiversity cannot be protected in protected areas, where can we protect biodiversity?
Jianguo Liu
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
Heywood C. Broun
He was an unbelievable human being. He is the last of the old Austrian ski instructors; it is the absolute end of an era.
Warren Miller
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David Thoreau
Adam is a wonderful athlete and a wonderful human being. He was understanding of the situation and the new landscape of the NHL.
Pierre Lacroix
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
Richard Strauss
Men and women chasing each other is what makes the human race.
Mark Beltaire
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
The human wreckage in this case is extraordinary, ... It spans everything from acquittal to conviction to death when you really think about it.
Jeffrey Miller
This is the first time we have actually measured pain activity in the human brain.
Professor Maria Fitzgerald
As citizen(s) of the country and as a human being(s), we want to help out.
Bob Morrison
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul.
Ivonne Sanchez
It's a big turning point in the field of human genetics and understanding risk factors to disease.
Tom Hudson
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush
It makes me sick to my stomach because I don't see, as a human being, how people could feel that way.
Laura Wood
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.
Sigmund Freud
This is the outstanding achievement not only of our lifetime but in terms of human history.
Michael Dexter
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
This is the kind of human being testifying against these officers.
Harland Braun
These programs are cheap to produce - there are no actors or screenwriters to pay. But there is a very high human cost.
Wesley Cordova
We have our first delivery from a successfully frozen human egg.
Jamie Grifo
It lets you see the human being behind the voice.
Susy Moorstein
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
It was a terrible natural disaster but an even greater human catastrophe.
Tom Morello
This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.
Rufus King
Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.
David Harcharik
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
John Naisbitt
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress.
Wilfred A. Peterson
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
Malcolm Gladwell
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
It worries us, because it is a virus that would theoretically better bind to human cells.
Ruben Donis
A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
Albert Pike
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
Orlando Bloom
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
It's been clear to me that he's been headline-seeking, and at any cost to any human being. And he clearly has been over-reaching.
Michael Long
We're concerned that Southwest Florida is a particular haven for victims of human traffickers.
Steve Wagner
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
Heinrich Mann
Believes like most Americans that human cloning is deeply concerning, and he strongly supports legislation banning human cloning.
Claire Buchan
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
Miles Franklin
We all make mistakes. We're human. Hopefully, everyone -- like I am -- will have that attitude. I'm not upset.
Mindy Mccready
He has a basic constitutional and human right to determine with whom his child visits.... As long as he is a fit parent, he should have that right.
Lawrence Whitney
We are dealing with human beings, and human beings always need something more than technically proper care. They need humanity. They need heartfelt concern.
Cardinal Lozano
Communication is a key strategy, both human communication and technical communication.
Helene Nelson
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen).
Heinrich Heine
Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Charles Bukowski
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
Charles M. Allen
As a human, to just buy him a dirty old tennis ball is just not enough, even though he doesn't care. I feel better because I've given him something more than just a tennis ball.
Bob Vetere
If anything, the march highlighted the human need. The challenge is getting the rest of the story out there.
Steve Williamson
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
Giotto Di Bondone
These dogs are trained to find human remains.
Mike Drawdy
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Sometimes we don't really know about our own fears. It's like confinement, but also comfort. There's a human level and there's a bird level.
Maddie Needles
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Antonin Artaud
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
The emergency is a human one, ... There could be many Hondurans who are cold and hungry, and due to the weather we can't get them help.
Ricardo Maduro
This is very bad decision making at the expense of human health and the environment.
Caroline Lucas
Genetic engineering has not delivered on any of its promises for human health benefits. There are a lot of failures scattered at the side of the road.
Margaret Mellon
Investigate human and alien crime, as well as alien technology that has fallen to Earth.
Stuart Murphy
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.
Ralph Ellison
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat Savarin
This helps take the human guesswork out of it, and makes it totally computer-based.
Chris Velden
I'm so proud of her. She was the most perfect human being I ever knew.
Mike Bennett
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John Xxiii
The current detectors we install can differentiate between humans and animals. It sees the dog, but it ignores the dog and it flags the human.
Ahmad Razzaghy
This protein is expressed in the human uterus.
Milan Bagchi
He has no damaging reputation involving human rights.
Usman Hamid
It was a human error on both ends of the deal - clerical errors, Based on what I know, it had nothing to do with it. This was an unfortunate error - some bad timing.
Robby Cunningham
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
Horst Koehler
We can have a dialogue on equal basis on all the questions, all the issues - including human rights.
American Studies
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
Julia Ward Howe
I was certainly not trained to be a fellow human being.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Sometimes, it's a personal connection. It comes down to human contact. You have to decide how you feel about it.
Paul Eisenberg
We documented a clear difference between bird viruses and human viruses.
Clayton Naeve
I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
Aileen Wuornos
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan
I am very excited to be part of Human BioSystems and to be in a position to help shape the future of the Company.
David Winter
(It's about) human beings, our decision-making process and how emotions affect them. We have some brilliant kids here.
Brian Hickey
At a point you've asked too much of human beings and it's not intelligent to keep going.
Trevor Fetter
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas Père
It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
Michael Crichton
This is about making a choice to have our civil rights acknowledged and respected and protected as any human being.
Shannon Sickels
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette
Traditionally it's believed that ovulation in human female is concealed and there are no changes in attractiveness across the cycle.
Jan Havlieek
Any kind of ecological or human activity that requires snow or snow-free conditions are bound to be affected by that.
Terry Chapin
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Dr. Rollo May
That is the financial side of the equation. What about the human side of the equation?
Robert Horton
Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.
Mike Huckabee
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
If you are asking me to guarantee that there won't be any human error at any job site going forward, no I can't do that.
William Good
It's so tempting and so easy that it can be a lot to ask ordinary human beings who aren't saints not to do it.
Jonathan Moreno
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
Jeff Raskin
Human reproduction is now in the hands of men, when it rightfully belongs in the hands of God.
Raymond Flynn
Look, that's not a human.
Marcia Tanner
It is 100 percent baseless and false. These provisions were requested by border-based U.S. attorneys to help crack down on human smugglers.
Jeff Lungren
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James
He was possibly the brightest human being I've ever engaged in conversation.
Gretta Bader
The two brothers are a very interesting finding that may for the first time give us a chance to monitor the human response to the disease.
Dr. Guenael Rodier
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
John Paul Jones
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
The more moving around you do, the less stable the human experience becomes.
Britton Banowsky
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse De Lamartine
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Henri Cartier bresson
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
Octave Mirbeau
I hope and pray that they get everyone that's involved in this and they don't ever get out to hurt another human being.
Luhanna Chesley
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?
George Eliot
But just as importantly I would say to you as a friend he's one of the nicest, most decent human beings I've ever known.
Doug Miller
To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human.
Bob Goddard
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