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Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.

Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

Human creativity uses what is already existing and available and changes it in unpredictable ways.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.

Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and intellectual structures are learned. I think that this assumption is wrong. None of these structures is learned. They all grow; they grow in comparable ways; their ultimate forms are heavily dependent on genetic predispositions.

Humanity starts at the level of the human consciousness and makes its deliberate way to the summit, which is God Consciousness.

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Humor is a great way to relieve stress.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.

Humor was a good way to hide the pain.

Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

I act the way I talk. It probably comes from starting out in Second City, improvisational theater. I can go from take to take. I'll ask for another take.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.