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Quotes About Human

I hate babies. They're so human—they remind one of monkeys.
~ Saki
DID YOU KNOW!?! That all of human history can be described entirely in terms of the interaction between contractors and middle-level management. It's all true It's impossible to lie in any language and equally impossible to tell the truth.
~ Sal Salasin
It seems that these old cards were conceived deep in the guts of human experience, at the most profound level of the human psyche. It is to this level in ourselves that they will speak.
~ Sallie Nichols
Severe depression, put simply, is an overwhelming and unmanageable onslaught of every normal, human fear and difficult emotion. It is a loss of and lack of perspective and proportion.
~ Sally Brampton
Working in the inexhaustible natural pageant before me, I came to wonder if the the artist who commands the landscape might in fact hold the key to the secrets of the human heart: place, personal history, and metaphor. Since my place and its story were givens, it remained for me to find those metaphors; encoded, half-forgotten clues within the southern landscape.
~ Sally Mann
Human makes the rules, human breaks the rules. Just in the middle of time in that others suffer for good or bad.
~ Salman Aziz
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
~ Salman Rushdie
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
~ Salman Rushdie
Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.
~ Salman Rushdie
Dangus - nei aukštai, nei žemai, nei dešin?je, nei kair?je, Dangus yra žmogaus, kuris Tiki, širdyje.
~ Salvador Dali
Lo spazio in cui viviamo non è mai 'neutro'. Fu spazio di natura, con le sue continuità e i suoi sconvolgimenti, fino a quando l'uomo prese a imprimervi i propri segni, trasformandolo profondamente a propria somiglianza.
~ Salvatore Settis
Your fight -- our fight -- to end abortion in America will be one of the turning points in the history of the world. Just as when Great Britain ended the slave trade was a world history turning point, this movement to end abortion in America is a world history turning point. We must establish the common thought that all human life -- at all stages -- is sacred.
~ Sam Brownback
It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.
~ Sam Harris
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
~ Sam Peckinpah
neglected and betrayed you, but the animal inside you needed the animal inside them. If only, Rachel thought, you could be content with the animal part. Sometimes it was a burden to be human.
~ Sam Reaves
these entries we can see Smith focusing on the human landscape and the tension he felt between isolation and the teeming churn of collectives, a tension he never reconciled, and many themes of home—creating or finding a home, leaving and returning home.
~ Sam Stephenson
the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.
~ Sam Storms
Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it is their almost tactile quality that leads readers to sculpt images of the writers who use them. These images are then interrogated, mocked, congratulated, or dismissed, depending on the context of the reading and the disposition of the reader.
~ Sam Wineburg
The study of history should be a mind-altering encounter that leaves one forever unable to consider the social world without asking questions about where a claim comes from, who's making it, and how time and place shape human behavior.
~ Sam Wineburg
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
~ Samuel Beckett
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
~ Samuel Butler
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
~ Samuel Johnson
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
~ Samuel Johnson