149 quotes found
“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.”
“I was kind of tired, I guess, of knowing people are flesh. Flesh and water.”
“Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.”
“We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wande...”
“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human mea...”
“I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.”
“Humans are almost always lonely.”
“The most important precept is to be aware of WHO WE ARE!“Who we are,” he said, underlining each word as he said it. “Who we are! Us! Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? ...”
“My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.”
“Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is ...”
“Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.”
“Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human."I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately."But you'll also ...”
“Apes. The moon woke them--round the world's navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.”
“The world out there is nothing more than a load of places with people in ’em. And the people out there are neither more interesting, nor better, nor lower, than us here in Angle Tar. It’s humans, R...”
“I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.”
“Humans don’t connect their actions with what befalls them. Don’t they perceive time as linear?”"They do,” said Aitassi. “They just don’t see why they should do anything individually to change their...”
“Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.”
“The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.”
“What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.”
