#uma

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! ↗

— Thomas Mann

#brilliance #carefully #concentrates #considered #creature

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ↗

— William James

#habitual #human #human being #indecision #miserable

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. ↗

— William James

#failure #faith #his #human #lack

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#ballots #been #being #county #human

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#condition #human #human condition #hunger #me

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#amazing #ben #biographies #discover #einstein

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#exaggerated #forty #forty years #human #human life

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#human #human rights #law #response #rights