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Quotes About Human

We believe that the creation of a woman was the crowning and final and most glorified moment of human creation. That we start with light & dark and land & sea and we move through fish & fowl & beasts of the field and we get to Adam and it's still not good enough. And only when Eve was created -- this is our theology [...] -- that is our theology, that the crowning creation and the glory of the human experience came with the creation of Eve.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Violence is, in fact, an act of despair in one's own capacity to achieve as a human being.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
you. Calling is virtually never big or famous work; that is rarely the way the kingdom comes. It shows up quietly, subversively, almost invisibly. Half the time, it is unplanned—just the stuff of life in which a precious human steps in, the good news personified.
~ Jen Hatmaker
It's a natural human impulse
~ Jennifer Ackerman
One of the great advantages that we may derive from machinery is the check that it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the dishonesty of human agents.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
There is magic in this sad, hard world. A magic stronger than fate, stronger than chance. And it is seen in the unlikeliest of places....It lives inside every human being ready to redeem us. To transform us. To save us. If we can only find the courage to listen to it. It is the magic of the human heart.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The monkey's face had more emotions than a human's: curiosity, pity, exhaustion, like he'd already seen too much. Danny had to look away.
~ Jennifer Egan
As Americans, we prize human rights above all else and cannot sanction their violation. When someone threatens our rights, however, a wider leeway becomes necessary. Follow your instincts while bearing in mind that we must, and will, hew to our principles.
~ Jennifer Egan
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?
~ Jennifer Egan
I think it's very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love.
~ Jennifer Finney Boylan
Monster a person though monster not human. Monster like music. Like Beatles! Like Schumann! World full of stupid. World full of noise. Monster feel ANGRY. No birthday. No joys. World full of JUNK monster not comprehend. What is a childhood? What is a friend? Monster and human both want the same. Want conversation. Want love. WANT NO PAIN. If monster speak heart: monster life only worsen. Monster not human: BUT MONSTER A PERSON!
~ Jennifer Finney Boylan
that renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?
~ Jennifer Haigh
Two psychics, two werewolves, and a psychic human alpha walk up to a crime scene...
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Most of the time, it felt like my father and I were completely different species. Possibly literally, depending on the day and whether or not I actually qualified as human at the time.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The werewolf Senate hadn't been happy with the idea of a human alpha, and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about the fact that I had something most male Weres wanted very, very badly...Maddy. Lake. Lily, Katie, Sloane, Avie, Sophie...
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The things that haunt us, they make us human.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The wonder paradox is the miracle that we are blown away by the experiences of consciousness. Religion and art invite us to a world bigger than normal life, into contact with the weirdness of our human situation. We live within paradoxes. We feel permanent though well aware of death. The consciousness paradox is the startling fact that soft matter afloat in a bone bowl made Mozart's sonatas, Shakespeare's plays, and the whole astounding modern world.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
I'm not a vain person, but I am human...
~ Jennifer Niven
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
~ Emil Cioran
to uncover the true workings of human society from beneath the aesthetic surface under observation. (xiii)
~ Émile Zola
What have those lonely mountains worth revealing? More glory and more grief than I can tell: The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.
~ Emily Bronte
If the stillness is Volcanic In the human face When upon a pain Titanic Features keep their place- If at length the smoldering anguish Will not overcome- And the palpitating Vinyard In the dust, be overthrown?
~ Emily Dickinson
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
~ Emily Giffin
I'm not saying it's healthy to be past-obsessed, ferreting out details of every ex. But it's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
~ Emily Giffin