#human

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#away #breaks #floor #hit #human

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host. ↗

— Gabriel Heatter

#day #every #every day #game #game show

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#faith #great #human #misery #too

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline. ↗

— Jerome Hines

#essential #factors #human #keeping #motivation

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#church #does #exercise #exist #govern

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#humanity #leads #line #straight #straight line

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#human #human nature #least #nature #one thing

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humanity #imagination #loneliness #poetry #solipsism

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#equality #highs-lows #humanity #imperfection #equality

There were spaceships again in that century, an dthe ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions. They were a garrulous kind. They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some tribal god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving. It was a species that considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely inspired toolmakers; any intelligent entity from Arcturus would instantly have perceived them to be, basically, a race of impassioned after-dinner speechmakers. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#equality