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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
View quotes by André Gide

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
View quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

I told our players not to be overawed by their stars. I said 'They're human, just like you. They pee just like you. Imagine Giggs and Cantona having a piss. They don't piss wine.
View quotes by Uri Geller

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
View quotes by Ben Stein

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly, (Human Nature)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes

However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life.
View quotes by James Martineau

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
View quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
View quotes by Richard Adams

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
View quotes by Tennessee Williams

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their 'evil' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
View quotes by Camille Paglia

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
View quotes by Edward Steichen

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind
View quotes by David Hume

Others, like many of us, like the "good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another despised minority: the Palestinian people.
View quotes by Joseph Anderson

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.
View quotes by Pierre Omidyar

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition
View quotes by Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
View quotes by D H Lawrence

Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
View quotes by Alan Paton

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
View quotes by Rollo May

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