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Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Humanity Weapons Nuclear Weapons

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

John Coffey in The Green Mile

Humanity

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Humanity Criminal Minds

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

Humanity Appearance

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

H. P. Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu

Humanity Creation

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Universe Humanity Foolishness

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

Buddha

Nature & Environment Bees Honey

You must be the self-appointed Queen Bee. Interesting thing about bees. Pull out their stingers, they drop dead.

Wednesday Addams in Wednesday - Season 1 Episode 1

Bees

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. It's wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

Bee Movie

Bees

To make honey, young bee need young flower, not old prune.

Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid

Bees Honey

You win more flies with honey, but if you get yourself a bee, sting first!

Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 1

Bees Honey

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

Patti Smith

Bees

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep!

Vita Sackville-West

Bees

Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

Muhammad Ali

Bees Butterflies

Honey is an excellent motivator.

Winnie the Pooh

Honey

Tilda: "How does it actually feel?"
Amandus: "What?"
Tilda: "When you forget everything."
Amandus: "It's like... like having a head full of honey. All gummed up."
Tilda: "How long have you had honey in your head?"
Amandus: "Since I can't remember when."

Amandus in Head Full of Honey

Honey

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Honey

Robin: "He has a book of plays he uses to trick women into sleeping with him."
Patrice: "Oh, no way. Barney's my honey bear."
Robin: "Actually, one of his plays is called 'The Honey Bear'. He dresses up like Winnie the Pooh, and the next thing you know, his hand's stuck in your pot."

Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 10

Winnie the Pooh Honey

A Spoonful of Honey will catch more Flies than a Gallon of Vinager.

Benjamin Franklin

Honey

You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

Bree Van De Kamp in Desperate Housewives - Season 1 Episode 12

Women Breakup

When a woman quits on a man, she either got enough of him or she didn't get enough from him.

Marcel Aymé

Women Relationships

A jealous female can be tricked into everything.

Hook in Peter Pan

Women Jealousy

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

Yves Saint Laurent

Women Hugs

A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.

Coco Chanel

Women Age

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free, until they find someone just as wild to run with.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 18

Women Relationships

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Women Minutes

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Marilyn Monroe

Women

Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

Coco Chanel

Beauty Women Foolishness

None of us should accept a future in which our daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than we did.

Hillary Clinton - May 2022

Daughters Women's Rights

The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.

Emma Watson

Feminism Women's Rights Girls

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Camille Paglia

Women's Rights

The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.

Cardi B

Feminism Women's Rights

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the females.

Karl Marx

Women's Rights

There is a wall of silence against women and violence, and every time a woman speaks out it breaks a crack in that wall.

Marai Larasi

Being Silent Women Women's Rights

To the women of this nation I want to say that being underestimated is a great advantage, because often they don't see you coming.

Giorgia Meloni - März 2023

Women's Rights

Woman: "Got some lady lawyer here."
Ingrid: "You can just say 'lawyer'."

Ingrid Yun in Partner Track - Season 1

Women's Rights

Women who don't demand anything, are taken by their word - they don't get anything.

Simone de Beauvoir

Women's Rights

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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