Quotes About Human

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.

My legacy is that Merck continues to do what Merck has always done, which is to make singular impact on human health and animal health around the world. It's that simple.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

I was lucky enough to be raised by a man of great integrity and rectitude. That said, he was also human and had his secret sins, as we all do.

Sir Richard Attenborough was a wonderful human being and an amazing actor and director. He was a British who really loved India, its people, the culture and the conscience. He lived a great life.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Emotions are the same to all human beings. But there is some difference in the way people react to situations.

The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.

Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.

I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey.

The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make this possible.

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.