“I was a politician and not a human being.”— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com
“Every human being is a puzzle of need. You must become the missing piece, and they will tell you anything.”— Justin Haythe, Matorin, Sebastian Hülk, imdb.com
“I think I was able to show by going to every single county that we will leave no one behind, that no one will be forgotten, that every single one of us as an American and as a human being is important, and we will pay the respect necessary to show that and ensure that.”— Beto O'Rourke, cnn.com
“Don’t worry about Master Luke. I’m sure he’ll be all right. He’s quite clever, you know, for a human being.”— Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, C-3PO, Anthony Daniels, imdb.com
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me…all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”— Jackie Robinson, jackierobinson.com
“I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching a…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“Some people build fences to keep people out...and other people build fences to keep people in.”— August Wilson, amazon.com
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it. Some people, as far as the senses are concerned, just feel like home.”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“Once you have met a true human being, let him not disappear from the horizon of your heart.”— Rumi, goodreads.com
“The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.”— Rollo May, amazon.com
“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.”— Chris Cleave, amazon.com
“Whenever we're imagining someone as something more than a person... we're doing them and ourselves a profound disservice.”— John Green, youtube.com