#humanity

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#box #broadcasting #carpet #grass #humanity

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#dickens #had #humanity #me #never

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. ↗

— Robert Browning

#character #fear #hope #humanity #love

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#humanity #love #self-giving #beauty

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#electricity #humanity #justice #love #me

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity. ↗

— James Ellroy

#bad men #come #grips #humanity #i

...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served. ↗

— Philippe Claudel

#freedom #humanity #slavery #death

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#acknowledged #actions #between #change #climate

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story. ↗

— Dan McCurrigan

#courage #death #emotional #hero #humanity

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. ↗

— James Larkin

#above #alien #all things #body #cancer