Top 1200 Human Element Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.

We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand.

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

Love is a universal, attractive element. And other than death, love is the one thing that binds all of humanity.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important.

I always like to come with stuff people don't expect me to. I like the element of surprise.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more abuse of human rights where a lot of civilians are being killed and where human rights and international law are being set aside by America and NATO.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

The color grading in 'Peaky' is a huge, huge element of the show's distinctive style, you know?

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people, or a territory, or a nation, but rather the human race and the planet we inhabit.

In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.

We have a greedy cycle where Human Rights Commissions fine citizens in order to pay their own salaries so they can employ more Human Rights Commissions. It's a bounty system where the prizes are business owner's heads. And so as restaurants go broke, tourists get stabbed. That's human rights in New York. And perhaps America.

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

The first thing, the first element of a story that people hear, they believe it. Whether it's right or wrong.

There's an element of fantasy in both 'Animal Kingdom' and 'Peaky Blinders' but they're both real in lots of ways.

If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness.

If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your own.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.

My personal style is classic. So a classic element will always find its way into everything I wear.

I'm a Canadian Jamaican. For me, I carry my Jamaican element into my music in my more recent releases.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

We do some experiments in humans, some in mice, and there are some questions that can only be answered in nonhuman primates. It's true that you can't immediately say that those experiments will translate into human health, but nevertheless, it is obvious that having an understanding of human memory is going to be important for human health.

Some people ask, 'Why the word 'feminist'? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression 'human rights' is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.

Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

If I would have not been in films, I would have become an anti-social element.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.