#human beings

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#cars #diamonds #furs #human #human beings

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

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. ↗

— William Godwin

#beings #between #children #great #human

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

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ↗

— William James

#altering #attitudes #beings #human #human beings

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

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#characters #glorious #human #human beings #preposterous

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#beings #clear #different #human #human beings

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#back #backwards #beginning #beings #bored