Human Connections Quotes

Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.

I don't collect anything. I collect people, I think. I'm very social and I like seeing a lot of people.

Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.

I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we make here are so important and the relationships we choose are crucial, especially in that time when we are developing ourselves and we're becoming adults.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

A race is genetically coherent, a race is something you can study, a race is about genes and DNA, but it’s not just about genes and DNA. The most important thing about it is the people and the spirit. That’s what a race is about.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.