Beings Quotes

I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

I take issue with many people's description of people being illegal Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

I adore dogs to the extent I think they are much more important than human beings. I like your dog much more than I like you.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.