#human

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#detail #great #human #little #photography

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#being #cartoon #dark #decent #decent people

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#country #cuba #humanity #just #north

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hand #human #intimate #irregular #made

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#articulate #better #between #boundaries #case

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#during #humanity #pandemic #really #threat

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling. ↗

— Jung Chang

#constantly #could #evil #excitement #feeling

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#development #facts #historian #humanity #record

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#came #ease #hate #human #i