Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

Mark Twain

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Isaac Asimov

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Gregory Bateson

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

John Maynard Keynes

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

William Hazlitt

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

Bill Hicks

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

Orlando Bloom

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Peter Singer

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Paul Bloom

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

Olivia Newton-John

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Alejandro Thiermann

There is much talk about humans but not about birds.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.