#hum

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#human nature #middle #nature #stand #thing

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#being #choices #creature #food #given

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#athletes #cancer #constantly #courage #fight

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too. ↗

— George Murray

#fine #fine line #harder #humour #i

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development. ↗

— Margaret Murray

#call #civilized #development #growth #human

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. ↗

— Modest Mussorgsky

#art #end #humanity #itself #means

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#ecology #humanity #beauty

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#appealing #audience #being #device #distinguishes

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#actually #always #back #behavior #go

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock. ↗

— Dudley North

#dead #eating #estate #growing #him