#human being

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. ↗

— George Steiner

#being #brain #expression #heart #human

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#fact #half #human #human beings #now

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#attendant #being #does #every #human

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#beings #creates #exploits #human #human beings

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#being #give #human #human being #i

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#beings #board #drawing #human #human beings

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. ↗

— James Randi

#been #beings #decisions #experiments #human

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#everyone #evolution #going #human #human beings