Humana Quotes & Sayings

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. — Robert Anton Wilson

As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life. — Caroline Myss

I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you've survived, or the minutes you've been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over. — Jodi Picoult

Days Pass By Somehow But Nights Now Are Wagon Of Pain Injuries May Heal With Time But Marks Will Always Remain Restless On My Comfortable Bed I Toss And Turn And Try To sleep But Thoughts Are Walking My Head And Formed A Huge Heap The Past Is Flashing Its Scorching Light Beams Tearing Me Apart, Breaking Me At The Seams The Darkness Of My Life Is More Visible In The Dark !! — Ravinder Singh

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are. — Anne Lamott

The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby. — Doc Hayes

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?] — Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees. — Eric Schneiderman

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes — Marcus Terentius Varro

Daffodils are an optimistic flower, and foolproof. You know what Shakespeare said:
"Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty."
... I plant them in big clumps with a trusty shovel. I make several large holes all around and put quite a few in. That's why it makes such a spectacular look when they bloom. — Tasha Tudor

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied. — Maureen Johnson