#human

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#human-nature #humanity #repetition #tragedy #age

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. ↗

— Alan Lightman

#human-nature #tragedy #dreams

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. ↗

— Robert Shea

#functions #human #human inventions #interdependent #inventions

Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #emergence #growth #inspirational-growth #inspirational-human

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature. ↗

— Alexander Walker

#better #cooper #days #etc #film

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#nature #secrets #nature

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. ↗

— Anna Sui

#further #goes #human #human nature #instant

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#clock #does #ever #humans #nobody

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#desirable #directly #human #indirectly #reckoned

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. ↗

— Howard Aiken

#arithmetical #computations #desire #economize #effort