John Steinbeck Quotes

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

I'm terribly human.

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

I believe in humans.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

Fill the seats of justice With good men, not so absolute in goodness As to forget what human frailty is.

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

Remember that I am a human.

I'm only human.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.