Human History famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I'm very grateful for the people that I work with, because I don't get to choose them.

  • I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

  • The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?

  • I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge ***** and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?

  • I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

  • Breathing determines emotion. Emotion determines breathing.

  • Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  • From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze

  • It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

  • I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.