#hum

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#beautiful #being #believe #completely #feel

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer. ↗

— William Hull

#alone #approach #asked #attend #bible

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#else #err #human #politics #someone

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#humor

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#humorous #inspirational #life #funny

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#condition #consent #contemplation #cruel #cruelty

With publicity comes humiliation. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#humiliation #publicity

If everyone repeated my sayings, I would be so famous they wouldn’t have to be the least bit clever. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. ↗

— George Jessel

#brain #human #human brain #moment #never

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#beings #creatures #crowd #ear #eye