Quotes about humans

Rasmenia Massoud - Human Detritus

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Idealists are either blind or clowns because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans.

John N. Gray - Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Today we have made a fetish of choice but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

We humans speak many languages flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!

Amit Kalantri -

Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete because they are not heroes yet.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Trust me if there will be any heaven after life I am sure we humans are going to fuck it too.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant just prepare to deal with it!

Paul Cleave - The Killing Hour

Most killers have pretty average lifestyles. Steady jobs too. Sometimes they're even living the family life-white picket fence and a four-door sedan. That's what makes them so scary. They act human and they slot into society and since a young age they've known how to hide the crazy they put it up on a shelf and only bring it out on special occasions.

Shaun Maia -

People don't always want what they need nor do they need what they want but they always need to want.

M.F. Moonzajer -

God had conceived humans’ heterosexuals until they start making initiatives.

Peter Gärdenfors -

All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.

Eliezer Yudkowsky - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

Lila Abu-Lughod - Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?

Amit Kalantri -

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

Steven Magee -

We have yet to establish a permanent Mars colony for this reason: Trying to colonize Mars with humans is a known suicide mission that no one is talking about.

Amit Kalantri -

If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.

Amit Kalantri -

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

Amit Kalantri -

Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.

Amit Kalantri -

Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt.

Deepak Chopra -

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

Jeffrey Fry -

What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.

Amit Kalantri -

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

Amit Kalantri -

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.

Amit Kalantri -

Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".

Amit Kalantri -

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

Amit Kalantri -

With some money in your pocket you walk confidently, you talk confidently and you work confidently.

Amit Kalantri -

You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.

Frank Herbert - Dune

Humans are almost always lonely.

Amit Kalantri -

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans are ambitious creatures not meant to be idle or fruitless. We strive to learn, to grow, to achieve, to amass; therefore, we will never be content.

Angel Death -

if i had forever to do whatever i wanted, i would spend three years in reality and spend the rest of my time just thinking and decrypting what i saw and what would have happened to make it like so.

Daniel Pinkwater -

I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber -

We are all same, inside our homes!

Maggie Stiefvater - The Dream Thieves

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

Shelly Kagan -

If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics… to write poetry... to fall in love. Put under that description, when asked 'What’s so special about humans...?', I’m at a loss to know how to answer that question. If you don’t see why we’d be special… because we can do poetry [and] think philosophical thoughts [and] we c

Caroline Hanson - Love Is Mortal

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? W

Raheel Farooq -

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

Charles Taylor - Multiculturalism

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Amit Kalantri -

Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.

Augustine of Hippo -

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!

Alan Moore - Watchmen

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

Amit Kalantri -

Goals doesn't leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers.

Amit Kalantri -

His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.

Paul Hoffman - The Last Four Things

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Amit Kalantri -

No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.

Amit Kalantri -

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism

Amit Kalantri -

I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.

Amit Kalantri -

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

Amit Kalantri -

I am not stopping till my critics become my fans.

Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words

Heroes don't have friends, they have fans.

Amit Kalantri -

The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.

Amit Kalantri -

Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism.

Amit Kalantri -

Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession.

Amit Kalantri -

Most of the people are nice to live with, but not to do business with!

Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words

In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.

Amit Kalantri -

I don't beg for those things which can be earned.

Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.

Amit Kalantri -

I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.

Amit Kalantri -

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.

Amit Kalantri -

Targets are achieved sooner out of need, than out of greed.

Amit Kalantri -

Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.

Amit Kalantri -

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

Amit Kalantri -

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

Amit Kalantri -

If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.

Amit Kalantri -

Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

Amit Kalantri -

Successful companies are built by investing lare amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

Amit Kalantri -

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.

Amit Kalantri -

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

Amit Kalantri -

In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal.

Amit Kalantri -

Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you.

Amit Kalantri -

You need a team for war, not for negotiation.

Amber Hurdle - and Successful Female Entrepreneur

Remember that businesses are made up of humans like you. They aren’t going to be perfect and they willneed encouragement, clarification, and correction to deliver their best.

Amber Hurdle - and Successful Female Entrepreneur

Remember that businesses are made up of humans like you. They aren’t going to be perfect and they will need encouragement, clarification, and correction to deliver their best.

Carl Sagan -

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Amit Kalantri -

Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.

Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words

Consult your memory to know what matters most in your life.

Wayne Pacelle - Our Call to Defend Them

In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy. Especially within the last two hundred years, we've come to apply an industrial mind-set to the use of animals, too often viewing them as if they were nothing but articles of commerce and the raw material of science, agriculture

Carrie Vaughn - Kitty Steals the Show

Humans - a renewable resource.

Aldous Huxley -

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Michael Grant - Hunger

We’re here to execute a murderer,” Zil said, pointing at Hunter. “We are bringing justice in the name of all normals.”“There’s no justice without a trial,” Astrid said.Zil grinned. He spread his hands. “We had a trial, Astrid. And this chud scum was found guilty of murdering a normal.“The penalty,” he added, “is death.”Astrid turned to face the mob. “If you do this, you’ll never forgive yourselves.”“We’re hungry,” a voice cried, and was immediately echoed by others.“You’re going to murder a boy

Akshay Vasu -

Every time he saw her, he realised the reason why they always said humans are made of stardust.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

Robert Buettner - Overkill

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.

Cristiane Serruya - Trust: Pandora's Box

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

Alfred Hermida - Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters

Emotions play a vital part in the social transmission of news and information. Interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt affect how some stories catch on and travel far wider than others.

Megan McCafferty - Second Helpings

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

Temple Grandin - Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and pe

Grace Murray Hopper -

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Erich Maria Remarque - Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Actually, what does man live for?”“To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?” “Some people die without having become more sensible.”“Don’t evade my question. And don’t start talking about the transmigration of souls.” “I’ll ask you something else first. Lions kill antelopes; spiders flies; foxes chickens; which is the only race in the world that wars on itself uninterruptedly, fighting and killing one another?” “T

Riccardo Bruni - The Lion and the Rose

Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?""I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."-Conversation between Majid and Mathias

Niall Williams - History of the Rain

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Elizabeth Haydon - The Dragon's Lair

The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth, and us. But the Big Ones do not know that. They do not care for the earth, and its children, properly.

Steven Magee - Health Forensics

Based on the medical evidence that clearly states that being above 10,000 feet is hazardous to the health of sea level adapted humans, it is clear that all of the manned facilities on top of the 13,796 feet Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii should be removed and the summit restored back to its native environment.

Jude Morgan - Indiscretion

Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I have a dream, humans were part of aliens on earth.I also dream, that some humans are really indigenous.

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth - 4600 million years old - was a 46 year old woman- as old as Aleyamma teaacher, who gave them Malayalam lessons. It had taken the whole of earth woman’s life for the earth to become what it was. For the oceans to part. For the mountains to rise. The earth woman was 11 yrs old when the first single celled organisms appeared. The first animals, creatures like worms and jelly

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn’t want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive.