#human being

I still prefer horses to human beings. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#horses #human #human beings #i #prefer

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#being #cut #doctor #go #how

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#beings #case #enrich #horror #human

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#care #dangerous #die #earth #human

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class. ↗

— Anne Perry

#based #beings #breeding #buy #class

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗

— Plato

#arts #being #capable #hardly #human

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#human #human beings #large #possible #regarded

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#human #human being #magic #out #perfect