| 单词 | human being |
| 例句 | In my thirty-nine years on this earth, the Holy City of Mecca had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of All and felt like a complete human being. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Except it didn’t look like James—or even a human being. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Nemur’s constant references to having made me what I am, or that someday there will be others like me who will become real human beings. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Project Mercury was designed to do that, but again the Russians got there first, and put the first human being into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And beyond that, there are so many things I love about him: he’s kind and strong and he believes in the intrinsic value of women as human beings; he’s fun and deep and loyal. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z As big as a human being, the ape-thing jumped up and down on one foot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A human being, like the rest of us, trying to find his way on this journey where our paths crossed too briefly. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Even though Charles had not written about human beings in his book, it was front and center, as he had feared. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried it on a human being and discovered the same thing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Translated, that meant there was nothing a person can’t do, and there should be nothing a human being didn’t care about. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Another visitor, hunting for an exhibit of wax figures, asked a guard, “Can you tell me where the building is that has the artificial human beings?” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Looking at him, it was hard to believe he was a human being. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In the early 20th century, Carl Orff met gymnastics and dance educator Dorothée Gunther and established an innovative school for children based on the idea that all human beings are musical by nature. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z From this Anaximander concluded that human beings arose from other animals with more self-reliant newborns: He proposed the spontaneous origin of life in mud, the first animals being fish covered with spines. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I could have left and camped in the gorge again, but my enormous desire to see another human being overcame my fear of being discovered. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When you put it in words it sounded reasonable; it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Why can’t I tell people to go to hell? I’m not a decent human being, so why do I keep pretending to act like one?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "We're human beings again, Gerta. Let's not talk about our particulars. Let's talk about why I'm here. I'm taking people home." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and human beings are an accidental consequence of the random jostling together of atoms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I have raised you to respect every human being as singular, and you must extend that same respect into the past. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “The faction system that has long supported itself on the hacks of discarded human beings will be disbanded at once,” says Evelyn. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Today it covers more acres of the country than any other living species, including human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I had never in my life wanted so desperately to kill another human being. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I tried not to think about the fact that a human being can’t go without water more than a few days. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z No human being had ever pitched like that before, Turner decided. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “I’m running low on hearts as it is, and it takes a right lot of ’em to rise up a human being, even for just a minute.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I thought Odenigbo’s girlfriend was a human being; he didn’t say you were a water mermaid.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “True enough—but that paper still isn’t sufficient. It recognizes me implicitly as a human being.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The Preacher said, “Hold on here, you’ve misjudged me. I don’t deal in human beings.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He could easily back away from this bear and not a single human being on the planet would ever know. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I learned that it is not possible for human beings as we know them to live off the land. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was a human being, and had a human being’s wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He had given me a piece of himself that he had never given to another human being. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “The proles are not human beings,” he said carelessly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “You’ll forget because you just can’t help it. There never was a human being that remembered after the age of one—at the very latest—except, of course, Her.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Not a single human being saw them as they glided soundlessly under the cars that lined Forty-second Street. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Ecologically, the region is a treasure, but one designed and executed by human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Here the cabinets were designed to keep human beings from coming into direct contact with Nature. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “All human beings have brains, that’s my major premise. Do you not agree?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A man—a real man, a human being—stood in the doorway, watching them approach. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z For hundreds of thousands of years human beings have been burning and cutting down forests and encouraging domestic animals to graze on and destroy grasslands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is something every human being wonders, probably, at some point or another. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z What could be happening in there, now that for the first time animals and human beings were meeting on terms of equality? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z We all waited—I with a dread expectancy—for no human being was there. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They proposed that the allowable daily dosage for a human being should be one-hundredth of a roentgen, about a tenth of the standard applied to X-rays. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And seeing how “It” wasn’t even close to something I’d ever even consider discussing with another human being, I stuck with the dead boyfriend instead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z What they allow to happen to other human beings so that they can have the illusion of power, the barest whiff of control. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The whole world seemed to consist of hills, like a cat arching its back at the face of the night—no human beings, no houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But the dead Vietnamese soldier, his body sprawled out in the mud, was no longer a human being. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Despite their having no real bodies, the American legal system treats corporations as legal persons, as if they were flesh-and-blood human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunger did not know how to find that spot on a human being. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Even this may be an accurate prophecy: If the planet ever is terraformed, it will be done by human beings whose permanent residence and planetary affiliation is Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent rarely carried a gun on his person, and had never had occasion to fire a gun at another human being. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They cannot lead a good life apart from human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As a result these Japanese beetle programs have caused shocking destruction of animal life and have exposed human beings to undeniable hazard. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Which may be the stupidest thing I’ve ever said to another human being, but it makes her laugh some more. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I had learned that human beings are frequently unpredictable. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Does that make me an awful human being? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He had lost his job at the glass factory, and he had lost something even more precious: his dignity as a human being. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Everyone agreed that they are more like human beings than any other creature alive today. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “He’s not expired meat, he’s another human being!” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But he was never able to believe that human beings had no divine genesis, and he always believed that humans possessed a soul. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z God, angels, and extraterrestrials have yet to come to our assistance; yet more and more phenomena have proved explicable by the dim reason of human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I have recommended that no further tests be made on human beings until these things are clarified by additional research on animals. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Moms are technically human beings, and human beings are allowed to have romantic lives. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Through art alone, the Mexica said, can human beings approach the real. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Part of the answer is that civil rights organizations—like all institutions—are comprised of fallible human beings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Why can’t the officer stand and talk to me face-to-face, like a normal human being? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There would be no need for any of the animals to come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There never were seven more silent human beings in the back of a truck, we were too stunned even to cry or speak. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My brain says: Juan, you are a wonderful, awesome human being and a complete natural at cutting mushrooms, and I love you. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z You’d look at this house and never know there was a human being living in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them have a dignity about dying, denied to human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Even human beings had not only an immaterial mind but a material sensitive soul, capable of a physical presence after death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was unsettling to see Otis Amber act like a normal human being. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a human being,” I said as I unbuttoned my dress shirt. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z People seeing you as a Muslim saw you as a human being and they had a different look, different talk, everything. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As human beings, we are just too small. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Monkeys are nearly identical to human beings, in a biological sense, which is why they are used in medical experiments. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The central message that readers were bound to take away from such texts is that human beings have a mistaken sense of their own importance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The element of luck in Tyson’s analysis lies in the fact that the specimen he examined was a young chimp, and human beings resemble infant chimpanzees even more than they do adult chimpanzees. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Neither of you have any appreciation for the inherent value of women as human beings.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “Well, maybe we live another day to be decent human beings. Besides, jerks always look like they’re constipated. You can tell from their faces. They’re always pinched.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals. from the moment of conception until death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were no human beings of any kind hanging around outside. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But even then we could not mix those chemicals together and have a human being emerge from the jar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, be-tween himself and the rats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He did not regard me as a human being. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe they would be treated like human beings,” Mama said. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It ran for three pages, typewritten, single spaced, describing the signs and symptoms of a filovirus infection in a human being, as well as possible experimental treatments that might arrest the terminal meltdown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If Levi-Strauss is right, myths are constructed by a universal logic that, like language itself, is as characteristic for human beings as nest- building is for birds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All are instances of that animal equivalent of anthropomorphism: zoomorphism, where an animal takes a human being, or another animal, to be one of its kind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Why, Granddaddy had told me about a parrot who had lived past his century and learned over four hundred conversational phrases, as acute a mimic as any human being... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z However, these estimates are for human beings reduced to our simplest possible components. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone would think he was just a little human being in a furry suit. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But after the performance was over, the human beings crowded around and put their faces down close to the bars and poked their fingers through. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z As if he wished to ascertain that the person addressing him was actually a creature of flesh and bone, a human being with a body and a belly. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All I could think of was that Mr. Robert was probably the only human being who’d ever put his mouth on a dog’s nose. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars—caged. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And you’re constitutionally unable to love or understand any son of God who says a human being, any human being—even a Professor Tupper—is more valuable to God than any soft, helpless Easter chick.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z After several minutes he said, “Is one allowed to speak as a human being, or does the thing about being seen and not heard have to apply?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z One is respected and judged only as a human being. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you’ve been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A human being, hearing from a distance the noise of a crowd, can form an idea of its size. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be no less true to say that Estraven’s acts had risen out of pure personal loyalty, a sense of responsibility and friendship towards one single human being, myself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not talk for talking’s sake, in the artificial manner that human beings—and sometimes even their dogs and cats—do. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere, not too far away, were human beings—his world: he could not mistake their message—or refuse their invitation—they were undoubtedly cooking something. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean? She accepted you as another human being.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then Colonel Aureliano Buendía realized, without surprise, that Úrsula was the only human being who had succeeded in penetrating his misery, and for the first time in many years he looked her in the face. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Breakfast had been eaten and cleared away, and Professor Rumfoord was reluctantly becoming interested in Billy as a human being. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The argument rests, of course, on certain assumptions about the core of human beings, and is necessarily speculative. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed that all human beings possessed this ability, particularly his own family, and that if it did not function well it was simply due to a lack of training. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And so were the mulefa, and so were human beings in every world, and every kind of conscious creature, wherever they were. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Do I have the courage to kill another human being? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Car after car the prisoners come, a river of human beings pouring out of the night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Marched off the porch, right out into the dead of night, where supposedly the animals were wide awake and walking around like human beings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It had spread with astonishing speed.The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z This general concept is called terraforming: the changing of an alien landscape into one more suitable for human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His memory was short; already human beings were back on their rightful pedestals, cornucopias of dog food in their hands. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And I ain’t done much studying on the Bible, but I believe it do say somewhere in there that all human beings has souls. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z It is important because many aquatic snails serve as hosts of dangerous parasitic worms that spend part of their life cycle in a mollusk, part in a human being. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Except for Perry, Floyd Wells was the one human being who could link the names Hickock and Clutter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z People believed that the gods gave fire to human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z However, human beings who shared its habitat found it annoying because of its sheer numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I could fall in love with a glass of water much more than a human being right now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He did not feel sorry for Mary; she was not real to him, not a human being; he had not known her long or well enough for that. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “And all teenage boys are human beings. That is my minor premise, controversial though it may be. And if my major and minor premises are so, sir, what is your conclusion?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The idea that every organism was meticulously constructed by a Great Designer provided a significance and order to nature and an importance to human beings that we crave still. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas couldn’t believe he was still looking upon a human being—the madness in Ben’s eyes, the phlegm flying from his mouth, the pale skin stretched taut across his veins and bones. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it’s worse to spend all day in my room, or struggle through my classes and be forced to speak to other human beings. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z To her at the moment, another human being was but an inconsiderable item. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They take pains to explain that ants are not, emphatically not, tiny mechanical models of human beings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Who was a great enough human being to come up with words for this occasion? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the first human being other than the boy that he’d spoken to in more than a year. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z How lethal these lawns may be for human beings is unknown. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Once he got around two full turns, which no human being should be able to do, and came up laughing and snorting so hard he could barely breathe. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Its leather binding and marbled edges proclaimed to all the world that it was about as dull a book as could ever have been written by any one human being. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I knew that my mom was a human being, frail and confused, but I’d always thought she was just a little less confused than everyone else. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Ebola can’t tell the difference between a , human being and a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows and accepts the shameful probing curiosities of human beings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons—throw it to some human being or some human idea. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When a. filovirus begins to amplify itself in a human being, the incubation period is from three to eighteen days, while the number of virus particles climbs steadily in the bloodstream. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no such thing as a perfect name. I think that human beings should be allowed to name themselves when they turn eighteen,” he adds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yet students like me do not feel welcomed here, Dr. Cook. Are we just dollar signs to you all, or are we actual human beings?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “So is that what Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z This God created a world with people at the top, near the angels, and all the other animals down below, unrelated to human beings. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Here were more crippled human beings, more fools like themselves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am expressing my feelings, Johnny. That is what being a living, breathing human being is all about. Hello?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Each history in the sum over histories will describe not only the space-time but everything in it as well, including any complicated organisms like human beings who can observe the history of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What the economy consisted of in 1960 was potential—raw materials, human beings, high spirits, some money from the marketing board reserves left over from what the British had taken to rebuild their postwar economy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But maybe they know too much about the victors, especially the ones who’ve been celebrities for ages, to forget we’re human beings. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘Sometimes I have to shake my head,’ she’d say, ‘because human beings deserve exactly what they get.’ Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t argue that they should be treated the same as human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The old God of Sleep aroused his son, Morpheus, skilled in assuming the form of any and every human being, and he gave him Juno’s orders. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In all my life—though surrounded by many people—I had not had a single satisfying, sustained relationship with another human being and, not having had any, I did not miss it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She was one of the few gentlewomen I have ever known, and has remained throughout my life the measure of what a human being can be. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘What sort of human beings do you eat?’ she asked, trembling. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Never forget, grandchildren, that we must always see all other people as human beings, worthy of respect. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When we had watered all the hives of Tiburon and sprinkled enough sugar to cause a human being to gain fifty pounds, we drove home hot, hungry, and nearly drowned in our own sweat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Excellent! You almost look like a human being now!" says Flavius, and they all laugh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It is possible, the old people said, for a human being to live for fifty days on water. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they’d never met a Muslim until they came here, looked one of us in the eye, and realized we are human beings who laugh and cry, like they do. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Human beings have done evil things to each other for as long as there’ve been human beings. We also do kind things, too. Rescue a stray dog. Keep an old man company.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Prometheus only helped human beings to pick up the handle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Just as a human being, a collection of 100 trillion cells, is typically in a steady state between synthesis and decay and is more than the sum of its parts, so also is a galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was also curious about the things that made all human beings tick. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And all of them, suddenly, looked less like human beings. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “The proles are human beings,” he said aloud. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the human being whose dead face stared emptily back at her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was like she waited for the greatest question to ever come out of a human being. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If she hadn’t done what she did, I never would have figured out what Shakespeare was trying to express in Romeo and Juliet about what it means to be a human being. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Just because I'm playing for the other team doesn’t mean that I’m this pathetic human being who's begging to be loved. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z We still live with the consequences, and it seems likely that human beings always will. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Rabbi Jachanan, unable to keep silence any longer, begged the holy man to explain the meaning of his dealings with human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, we can’t rejuvenate. But I’m very glad,” Dr. Shaw had concluded, “to have had this opportunity to see an example of senility in a human being. Thank you so much for calling me in.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know why human beings need to spit?” the man in the gray suit asked suddenly. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It is a far from sufficient definition, to be sure, since human beings make many things other than works of art. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I know he tried, and he’s still trying, and he’ll still make mistakes sometimes, because he’s a human being, and I’ve learned now that this is what human beings are always destined to do. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I mean there is one time when a robot may strike a human being without breaking the First Law. Just one time.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was looking around now, wondering which naked human being was Billy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Corn spread because it could adapt to the needs of human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I had lost hope in my white fellow human beings. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Because of my nature, I may have to endure old age for decades longer than regular human beings. The humiliating finale to the mortal condition.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t any human being with a beating heart hand me one of the brown, light, perfect cream puffs? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z His room, a proper room for a human being, only somewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z This was really the wild, where anything could be hidden, not a place for human beings. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Human beings like to laugh, and lucky for me pretty girls are human beings. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Almost all the hooved animals in Germany had been killed and eaten and excreted by human beings, mostly soldiers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But I feel good—necessary and tired and alive. julijonas Urbonas, the man who thought up the Euthanasia Coaster, claims it’s engineered to “humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We didn’t see a human being or pass another vehicle. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Now when I was naked, I was a strange human being indeed—words carved on my back and the baby large in front. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z No human beings had names like that “These guys are moving here next year,” Sloan bragged, like that was supposed to scare me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Not a human being that ever lived could wish to be loved better than I was loved; and him who thus loved me I absolutely worshipped: and I must renounce love and idol. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The hazard extends to human beings as well as animals and may help to explain the recent mysterious increase in “silo deaths.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For some mysterious reason, he responded as if he saw me as a regular human being who had made a reasonable request. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Other than that tramp and pictures in books, Luke had never seen another human being besides his parents and Matthew and Mark. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, living, breathing human being,” he says, biffing her lightly on the shoulder. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Each row of shelves held men—human beings—chained like animals and stacked like logs for the fire, row after row, shelf after shelf. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Whole days passed during which he never saw a human being. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course by now the bear has become thoroughly habituated both to human beings and to their food. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Whole sections of the Nut collapse before our eyes, obliterating any sign that human beings have ever set foot on the place. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But old Grandma always used to say, “Back in time immemorial, things were different, the animals could talk to human beings and many magical things still happened.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This is something I really wanna go to ... for networking reasons and just for personal exposure to fellow human beings who would be mostly friendly. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Atlantic Charter of 1941, signed by Roosevelt and Churchill, reaffirmed faith in the dignity of each human being and propagated a host of democratic principles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I thought I might implode if I didn’t talk to another human being about the events of my new life, especially the parts someone my age wouldn’t be allowed to see in the movies. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Capitalism would inch forward, without my actually having to interact face-to-face with another human being. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “No! Ngozis can no longer demand human beings as payment! That custom is illegal—and it’s stupid—and cruel! I will not agree!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Culture to us seems the great determinant of how human beings conduct themselves; in the relentless academic debate between “nature and nurture,” it is the “nurture” school which commands greater support from the bystanders. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Shut up. I hate it, but I read something once by a poet named Warsan Shire. It says that you can't make a home out of human beings, and that someone should’ve told you that.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z You feel an intense, out-of-the-skin awareness of your living self—your truest self, the human being you want to be and then become by the force of wanting it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When did I go from human being to baby machine to fill your space? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Of course, we must try to help suffering human beings. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z His face was unshaven, and rather than two eyebrows, like most human beings have, he had just one long one. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z And Kiowa had been a splendid human being, the very best, intelligent and gentle and quiet-spoken. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At first and for a long time it seemed to Wang Lung that he wished to see no human being but only to be alone on his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z This system seems to be restricted to human beings, since we are the only beings with language, although chimpanzees may have the capability of manipulating symbols with a certain syntax. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you know of this Metatron? He was once a man: does he still have the physical strength of a human being?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the incarnation of Christ restores to human beings the possibility of salvation, reopening the gates of Eden, which had been closed against Adam and Eve, and opening to believers the gates of paradise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Billy was the next-to-last human being to reach the door. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Fve read about how they would torture, starve, and mutilate people’s bodies to something that was not recognizable as a human being. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Just the thought of all the things I’d taken—silly trinkets I knew folks valued more than they did other human beings—it made me feel powerful. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z For these chemicals are now stored in the bodies of the vast majority of human beings, regardless of age. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There have been roughly 600 generations since human beings first ceased to be hunter-gatherers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But there were human beings down there, whatever was left of them after a couple of hundred years, still sitting in their blackened cars, as if still trying to escape their fate. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As human beings we have a hard time with this kind of progression, because the end result — the effect — seems far out of proportion to the cause. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The task that remains is to cope with our interde-pendence—to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was happy to have an audience so he could argue for the divine creation of human beings. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There must be ways of putting nucleic acids together that will function far better—by any criterion we choose—than any human being who has ever lived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And here Jule was, out on the sea, this crazy turquoise sea, with this rare, unique human being. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In foreground, on a mountain, is an exultant human being. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the air was full of the roar of traffic and the hum of human beings. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked almost as dependent as a human being for some acknowledgment of its existence. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He said that the words on the spider’s web proved that human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The third man, mustachioed, perhaps a Turk, was easily the biggest human being she had ever seen. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z So can animals suffer if they can’t think like human beings? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Besides, I want scenery rather than a windowless subterranean tunnel. I’m a human being, not a mole.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Noah’s IQ was off the charts, but he’d yet to hold a conversation with a real human being this year. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z You are a human being with a free will. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They are cold and hard and human beings like myself live upon their surfaces—many billions of them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z For the great masses of human beings who work and suffer and work until they die. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A thousand times better than Winston, he knew what the world was really like, in what degradation the mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “He’s just a dog, not a human being! Even humans leave people they love!” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Because as human beings we store digits in a memory loop that runs for about two seconds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He knew about fogs and the sneaky ways of human beings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z If they went hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beings; if they worked hard, at least they worked for themselves. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Three days passed: after them, Ray Gusdorf quietly emerged from the Midnight Mountains a different human being—mature, introspective, curiously subdued. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This chapter focuses on the decades-long dispute over when human beings first came to the Americas—an argument that seemingly has been won by those advocating a more ancient date. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It might be true that the average human being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Their point was that a human being in a gamma field was endangering his life and that it didn’t matter that he could remain there half an hour safely. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z However, receiving those messages made me pray hard that such bombs would never fall on human beings again. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z With all their cleverness they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being was thinking. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I imagined myself doing things I could not do—charging an enemy position, taking aim at another human being. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The word for the stomach of a human being is tnaag. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never seen human beings hit each other so hard. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Whoever he was, he wasn’t a human being. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time, it was approximately six gallons of water—about fifty pounds’ worth—for every human being alive on the planet. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It is the most powerful and productive of the things human beings have learned to do together in many centuries, more effective than farming, or hunting and fishing, or building cathedrals, or making money. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaned into the familiar, comforting sounds and smells of home, holding on to them like a lifeline, and I stared at my mom, who was, unquestionably, a human being of the superior variety. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z As human beings, we seek meaning in everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Maybe next time we go out to eat you can order something like a normal human being.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z My parents were actually pretty great, as far as human beings went. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z All human beings are capable of the sort of intellectual activity that tracking requires, and when we investigate a problem we are engaged, as the realists claim, in a sophisticated version of the same activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We want to be regarded as human beings in the land of our birth. And the present political system denies us that right.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it comes, always—the overseer’s cry, the call to work, the shadow of the master, the reminder that she is only a human being for a tiny moment across the eternity of her servitude. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as I know that I am a human being, I don’t need to worry about what other people say. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z His father, a happy-go-lucky and reckless buck, had thought nothing of living close to human beings except that he would be able to forage in their garden in the early morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Their work had focused on aviation; after all, airplane cockpits were the place where human beings were most acutely confronted with new technologies, powerful ones that taxed our neurological limitations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He saw right to the core of the problem, which was human beings wanting to feel that they mattered. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I jumped up and shouted: “Shut up! Leave him alone! He can’t understand. He can’t help what he is... but for God’s sake, have some respect! He’s a human being!” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It would speak eloquently of how rare are the living things of our planet, and would underscore, as nothing else in human history has, the individual worth of every human being. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Satyagraha is the opposite of the idea that a human being can be made into property by someone else’s laws, or guns, or prejudice. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense much in a strange place where they cannot see, but with rabbits it is otherwise. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugar plantations were farms, but they had to run like factories—with human beings as the tireless machines. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He was once a walking, talking human being. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Prison workers should be retrained for jobs and careers that do not involve caging human beings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Or is it we as human beings who share a certain capacity for common sense with all other human beings? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All the art and all the thought of Greece centered in human beings. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z If only Nemur would look at me as a human being. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The stars, the black skies affirm his humanity, his validity as a human being. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I began the fox’s favorite song just as he was about to chase him again, and he stayed to listen. Now I couldn’t do that for any human being in the subway station.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “The wildest of all our falcons, the one most intolerant of human beings, has discovered rats. She will be an enormous asset to Delhi.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so glad I had some communication with a human being, I was just saying whatever came to mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke these words like a human being, and showed a side of himself we had never seen before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Zlata looked around, stared at us, and simply said, “I’m a human being.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Half a myth and half a human being. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It seems that this idea could explain many of the observed features of the universe, such as its large-scale uniformity and also the smaller-scale departures from homogeneity, like galaxies, stars, and even human beings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He urinated against the side of the oak tree, next to which was a small mound of droppings, certainly not produced by any human being. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z If I heard a voice and no human being was near, then either God or the Devil was trying to talk to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not at all fear taking our lives because they didn't think of us as human beings. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His eyes narrowed: whether from our long association, or from many dealings with human beings, and whether one kept silent or spoke to cloak one’s thoughts, he always knew the heart of the matter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Was there a common set of rules, he wondered, that governed the facial expressions that human beings made? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z So even for someone who considers a fetus to be worth only one one-hundredth of a human being, the trade-off between higher abortion and lower crime is, by an economist’s reckoning, terribly inefficient. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In his mind he processed human beings and objects in the same way. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Ultimately, our omnivore’s dilemma is rooted in our nature as human beings—but we’ve made our choices much harder than they used to be. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Heavy, angry hands all over his body; loud, angry voices robbing him of his being, of being a human being. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z They are synthesized by human beings and in most cases promptly fall to pieces. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no other human beings here at all; just us and the ghosts. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I’d heard Dad list all their deficiencies as human beings whenever my uncle Ken—Mom’s brother—came to visit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Stop hitting poor old St. Paul—and give your heaviest raps on the head of every Nabob—man or woman—who does injustice to a human being—for the crime of color or sex!!” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn’t take orders. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Upon my honour,” said he very seriously, “it does not. It is not in the smallest degree connected with any human being of the name of Knightley.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z You have no right to judge another human being. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ancient sources talk about his perishing at sea for his impiety, or alternatively, say that the brotherhood banished him and constructed a tomb for him, expelling him from the world of human beings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z How ridiculous is the notion that I’ve made another human being feel like less of one? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Were the Earth to be started over again with all its physical features identical, it is extremely unlikely that anything closely resembling a human being would ever again emerge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then are you stronger than human beings, or weaker?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Isn’t she a human being like you and me?” my mother asked, and proceeded to prepare a meal for the crazy woman who, meantime, kept scratching herself till she bled. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’ve got millions, but they live like human beings. They don’t put on airs and strut. Mrs. Dalton believes that people should be that way.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was no sign of any human being in the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An average-size human being jumping out of an airplane will reach 99 percent of terminal velocity—approximately 122 miles per hour—within about fifteen seconds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The owl told me that in all the years he had been flying, he had never seen a human being near it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Was I paranoid to think that when she’d said human beings, what she really meant was me? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What makes it a great deal more difficult to imagine is that everything which human beings would consider to be above the water level was fringed with all the colours of the spectrum. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was letting you break your icons one by one. He was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “He’s a human being, even if he is dead. Now help me pull him out. Pita, you go sit over there if you can’t handle it.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was no good trying to swim like a human being, for it made him go corkscrew and much too slowly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not afraid, only deeply offended—never in his long life had human beings reacted in such a way to his friendly overtures. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And they’re so big—a human being is nothing compared with one. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z As human beings, we are capable of extraordinary leaps of insight and instinct. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Maybe in a few days, if I remained patient and prayed, it would really be that way—white students would welcome me and smile and treat me like an ordinary human being. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “I’m not asking you to try to love me. But just as one human being to another, just because I’m miserable and don’t know where to turn, I just need to be in your arms.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z You get your meals through a slot, you do not see other inmates, and you never touch or get near another human being. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It took a great deal of energy to be a human being, and the more the wind blew and the sun moved southwest, the less energy Tayo had. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “In the end, I felt hope. I realized that my soul was not permanently scarred after all. I was still a human being.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Positronic brains were constructed that contained the positive aspect only of the Law, which in them reads: ‘No robot may harm a human being.' I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A foreign diplomat told a reporter, “You can’t believe it’s possible that human beings can be so regimented or that, in such a short time, an entire nation could have become so war-minded.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He had to clean Derek, take care of him, take care of another human being. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Look: In my father’s novel, The Lazarus Door, incomers named Earth the planet of humans and dogs because they liked keeping dogs as pets, but they liked human beings as entrees. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The final exam: What is the most important question human beings must answer? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Harold Morowitz has calculated what it would cost to put together the correct molecular constituents that make up a human being by buying the molecules from chemical supply houses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okra has too much pride to do tricks for mere human beings,” Mary Anne stated officiously. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling almost like a human being, I walked into the school and saw Penelope the Beautiful. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “We were taught not to think of them as human beings,” he said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I was publishing music reviews, articles, and essays in the local alternative newspaper, and this meant contact with more human beings. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If you do things like this to a human being, he or she goes crazy. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The human being, even in the midst of people, spends nine-tenths of his time alone with the private voices of his own head. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z How comforting the presence of another human being can be. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But this was because Indians north and south regarded Europeans as human beings exactly like themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Greeks believed that studying music would produce better, more tolerant and nobler human beings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the first stroke of luck I’ve had all day, my English teacher actually seems to be an interesting human being. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Disease-carrying insects become important where human beings are crowded together, especially under conditions where sanitation is poor, as in time of natural disaster or war or in situations of extreme poverty and deprivation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The result was a quite new sense of the insignificance of human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the meantime, human beings will almost certainly have evolved into something quite different. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He confessed that for years he had been in personal touch with Goldstein and had been a member of an underground organization which had included almost every human being he had ever known. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was “to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fact of insecticide storage in the germ cells of any species should therefore disturb us, suggesting comparable effects in human beings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A whale or a human being needs something like five billion bits. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know what they say: When people start burning books they’ll soon burn human beings. Suppose we’re next to find ourselves on a pyre?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Goss used the pronoun that designates a male animal, not the pronoun for a human being in the masculine role of kemmer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He had muscles I wasn’t sure human beings were supposed to have. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Jane says, "I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.'" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Both viruses seem part of a pattern, When he learned what Marburg virus does to human beings. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, there are other less expensive but still highly reliable methods of making human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The somer-keirimer cycle strikes us as degrading, a return to the estrous cycle of the lower mammals, a subjection of human beings to the mechanical imperative of rut. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But in the end they kissed each other good night and both were left with the feeling that the other was an extraordinary human being. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Considering the human beings she was surrounded by, believing in a squirrel seemed like an increasingly reasonable plan of action. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “All human beings are bom with rights derived from God that no earthly power can take away.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise, why, you might as well have machines do all the work instead of actual human beings. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She and bandits were the only human beings out, no palanquins available for midwives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But never before have I held the fate of other human beings in my hands. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In one sense we have launched into the Cosmos a direct transcription of the thoughts and feelings of a single human being in the month of June in the year 1977 on the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He said the issue at hand was bigger than race—it was about the value of human beings as children of God. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe a human being could survive so much pain, so much butchery. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There had been a moment—she was sure now—when she had ceased to exist as a living human being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They showed them acting in every way as human beings did; walking, for instance, and eating, as Earth and Heaven obviously did not. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood up to it and repeated, “I am a human being.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of human beings behind us exploded with a bomb. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I know a boat ain’t really alive, not like a human being is alive. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve murdered a human being. They are going to put you in jail. They might even hang you!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You believe that human beings are not fit to govern themselves, and therefore—” He started and almost cried out. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It said that human beings came from orangutans, like Jenny in the zoo. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But as long as they could still see Africans as property, they could not treat Haitians as equally brave and courageous human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Turner figured he had had enough of Robert Barclay’s tormenting propositions, more than enough to satisfy any human being, and he said so. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I was speechless at the man’s attitude, and at my own physical feeling of no difference between us as human beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been estimated that, because of the exponential growth of the world’s population, between 10 and 20 percent of all the human beings who have ever lived are alive now. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Meridians of energy ran through every human being and animal and plant; they lay in limitless lines in the earth and the air like a vast web. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In South Africa, a man of color who attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the old dog was where he most loved to be—the center of attention among some human beings. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Child,” Lillian answered, “you are the healthiest human being on this earth. Don’t you go talking nonsense.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We have second-generation motion detectors; they only trigger if the moving object is large enough to be a human being—which means someone has hopped our fence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Mary was particularly interested in the three-part nature of human beings. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When you tell a human being ‘Hi,’ he ought to get up and knock you down.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, the boy on the cover wasn’t much older than they were, but lying in that coffin, beaten beyond recognition, Emmett Till looked more like a monster than a human being. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bees do that, and so do human beings. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Accordingly, the number of possible individual human beings is vastly greater than the number that have ever lived: the untapped potential of the human species is immense. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai watched them slowly turn from nameless horrors to human beings like himself. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Raising your hand to another human being makes you no better than a hooligan.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z But I want to say to you that the murder of Emmett Till was a cowardly act and a brutal and unnecessary killing of a human being. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to spoil his mood by reminding him that Lice Peeking wasn’t the most reliable human being on the island. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z When we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere–as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And every adult who maybe held some sort of imaginary report card as to what kind of human being she was. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z For the next Wednesday, I wrote an essay for Mrs. Baker about what Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It was like he didn't even see the man as a human being. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z "I think you are forgetting that a mouse can go places where human beings can't." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Maybe no human beings had been there for a long time, but lots of things liked to live in cool, dark caves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “When we saw them,” Sam added, “we realized that our enemies were just human beings.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was never more annoying as a human being than he was during Ramadan. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The English had stopped the slave trade, but the rulers of a sugar colony were not yet ready to listen to slaves demanding to be treated as full human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He was a most extraordinarily handsome human being, by any standards and as either sex, and I couldn’t help staring at him as I answered, and also wondered again what the Sarf was. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It seems we need to learn this information in person, from another human being. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But Cecilia, having learned modern forms of snobbery at Cambridge, considered a man with a degree in chemistry incomplete as a human being. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway: To have the most enchanting human being I’ve ever encountered tell me my move to her town is the best thing to happen to her in ten years? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Thomas screamed, louder than he’d thought possible for a human being to scream. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The same technology has been applied to human beings, with other kinds of rewards, and the results have been startling. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you don’t want me to go,” he said, “I won’t You know I have never loved any human being except you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His last comment about Bobby was “Fischer is a man of art, but he is a rare human being in the everyday life of this century. I like Fischer and I think I understand him.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One watch succeeded another through the day, though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rocky hole he lived in was to him like the worst nightmare of imprisonment would be to a human being. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She lay for a few minutes lapped in freshness, feeling as if she were the first human being who had ever lived. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As human beings, in other words, we can only handle so much information at once. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With a slickery swoosh, a tiny human being slid right into my arms. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He preferred to view his men not as units but as human beings. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a human being is dead there are people enough to provide the last decencies; perhaps it is so because only then can there be no question of further or recurring assistance being sought. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I simply never felt compelled to subject another human being to our way of life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z "You don't really think one of us could have killed a living, breathing human being in cold blood, do you, Mrs. Baumbach? Do you?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, do our worst actions define us when we’re alive? Or do you think human beings are better than the very worst things we have ever done?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A chemist, thinking to learn by the most direct possible means the dose acutely toxic to human beings, swallowed a minute amount, equivalent to about .00424 ounce. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Planting their orchards for millennia, the first Amazonians slowly transformed large swaths of the river basin into something more pleasing to human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The hopeful question is sometimes asked, “If insects can become resistant to chemicals, could human beings do the same thing?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Schindler dared to rebel against the law of the land, which was to torture and exterminate Jews, not to treat us as fellow human beings. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z With four generations per century, twenty-three centuries occupies almost a hundred generations of human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe I am,” I muttered, angry that I was sitting beside a human being to whom I could not talk, angry with myself for coming to her, hating my wild and restless loneliness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugar turned human beings into property, yet sugar led people to reject the idea that any person could be owned by another. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Big Ma used to say there wasn’t a human being as unfeeling and selfish as Cecile. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I was seeing human beings, flesh-and-blood men with eyes that looked back at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But one human being flaring up into violence could open up a black hole, a maelstrom that pulled in the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It could be. If so, let’s wait quietly. The Brain is a robot. It’s got to follow the First Law. It can’t hurt a human being.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Early human beings emerged from caves to become herdsmen and farmers, and, with a now secure food supply, they began crafting the first monumental “sculpture.” The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Although we were working very little at the time, he had approached us as human beings, and we agreed to assist him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Campbell said that a hero is an ordinary human being who does "the best of things in the worst of times." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It’s almost time to go “Also,” Minerva adds, “Padre Ignacio condemns fortunes only if you believe a human being knows what only God can know.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But right this minute there’re a lot of unhappy human beings.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There may even be odorants that fire off receptors in our olfactory epithelia without our being conscious of smell, including signals exchanged involuntarily between human beings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Because maize kernels are wrapped inside a tough husk, human beings must sow the species—it essentially cannot reproduce on its own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z However, any human beings who were observing the cups would be living in a universe in which disorder decreased with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As human beings, were born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Here the evidence is circumstantial, as it must be since we do not experiment on human beings, but it is nonetheless impressive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Thus far they had not met one single human being. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than ten million years ago, the first creatures who closely resembled human beings evolved, accompanied by a spectacular increase in brain size. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The amount of oxygen is far too little for a human being to breathe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. de Vries is as haughty as ever, an icicle of a human being. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The man, the human being, broke the spell at once. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I said that both races, as human beings, had the obligation, the responsibility, of helping to correct America’s human problem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He dreamed that he was going into an empty house with white walls and that he was upset by the burden of being the first human being to enter it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She wanted every child to be “made to feel wanted and respected as a human being, no matter what his race, creed or color.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z During training it had sometimes seemed as if I was going off to fight monsters, not human beings. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "America's a free country. Anyone can hold hands. And we are not ‘chicks,’ we are human beings." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When the lawyer deserted the East Coast after that divorce he was a stunned human being, a twenty-nine-year-old man on the block and ready to give up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That their influence was felt powerfully for only two or three centuries is an irreparable loss for all those human beings who lived between the Ionian Awakening and the Italian Renaissance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the human beings approached the farm buildings, Snowball launched his first attack. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z People had no idea that viruses were cleverer than human beings, and thought they’d soon be a thing of the past. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Are you actually suggesting, child, that a foul beast deserves the same regard as a human being?” he asked. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The Criminal Element spoke often, and passionately, about the nefarious activities that every human being is capable of. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “Because I look like a human being and I still have to hide from everyone,” Håkon said. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She was wrong about Oakland: human beings have lived there for 20,000 years or so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is not a food for human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “This is terrible ghost country, where a human being works her life away,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Next time you’ve got a problem just tell me, and then we’ll sit down and talk about it like civilized human beings. Okay?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor—it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z To see each and every human being with a smile of true happiness is my wish. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Individual wild animals discovered that they could better survive by hanging around human beings, eating their crops or leftovers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Master and you are kind toward our people. You treat us like human beings.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z You did not bow to another human being. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Ask and Embla were the father and the mother of all of us: every human being owes its life to its parents and their parents and their parents before them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It had to be sarcasm, but Harris-6 was smiling almost like a human being. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “He wrote to express something about what it means to be a human being in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the smaller things—like human beings, for example—can also change and affect the bigger things in the universe.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Heaven was the blue vault on high, but it acted in some ways as a human being would. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z No one in this room considered me an individual—a human being. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the 1915 occupation, the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He said Easter gave human beings their highest hopes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was fully realised that though the human beings had been defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed they might make another and more determined attempt to recapture the farm and reinstate Mr. Jones. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Mercer, he reflected, isn’t a human being; he evidently is an archetypal entity from the stars, superimposed on our culture by a cosmic template. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I was so astonished to see a human being in all this cold thawing silence that I just stood and looked at him. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z With this unique ability to penetrate the unknown and rare talent for expressing it through art, the artist-shaman gained control over the forces hidden in human beings and nature. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They had no documents that proved they were human beings, and they were silent, stubborn, and inscrutable. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if it was still necessary for human beings to do different kinds of work, it was no longer necessary for them to live at different social or economic levels. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He claimed that Charles said that human beings had developed from oysters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the human being version of a rat. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z They would seem the true image of what human beings always could be, once they had come into their inheritance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His hair was messy, but he had a magnificent smile, which immediately ranked him in the category of human beings who deserved to be painted into the gigantic fresco in her bedroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why,” said Michael, opening his mouth very wide, “they’re full of human beings!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That human beings have been clever enough to devise relativity shows that we think well, but I do not think we can boast about thinking fast. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if animals can’t suffer like human beings, there is no excuse for the cruelty that goes on in our factory farms and feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to “a human being with his skin removed.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Fall had partly disrupted this perfect arrangement, forcing human beings to labour to survive; but the original architecture of the universe was still visible for all to see. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There he intended to sell all of his cargo, including the human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The genesis of a human being was just a matter of adding water. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Rather than being weird, he responds like a regular human being. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z What I am trying to say is that it just never dawned upon them that I could understand, that I wasn’t a pet, but a human being. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to scrounging, eaves-dropping on human beings was what he enjoyed most. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z For five days, I walked from dawn to dusk, never coming in contact with any human being. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And who, at the same time, as a human being, is far freer in a strange land than he has ever been at home. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Still and all: better to have mangled a raven than another human being. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To date, the oldest living human being is somewhere around three hundred, but only because we are still so close to the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Where his pectoral muscles should be, he has a breast weighed down with the words of human beings: by words interred, free-as-a-bird absurd, unheard! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone—free—the human being is always defeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings,” she’d told Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Or is he...I’ve just never seen a human being with so much magic before.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z My senses told me that Tillie had coughed and spat into that pot, but my heart told me that no human being could possibly be so filthy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “If this should ever happen in the future, you make them understand that they wouldn't like to be treated that way and that we're all human beings created equal. Is that clear?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “We have: One, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z None of this, though, did more to change his understanding of how the world works—and how human beings interact with each other— than his first days outside the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When did human beings start creating works of art? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absolutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system–ever. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The moral law applies to rational, language-using creatures, and the law of nature binds all human beings by virtue of their capacity to recognize that there are moral obligations that are common to them all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the same way, human beings and grasses also have been partners. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He at least owes me his best imitation of a human being. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z My peanuts, before my very eyes, changed into human beings. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “But the human beings,” Tucker went on, “being what human beings are—and who can blame them?— would rather hear pieces written by themselves.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knows whether the same effect will be seen in human beings, yet this chemical has been sprayed from airplanes over suburban areas and farmlands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The soul, Descartes claimed, is unique to rational human beings; animals have no soul and no capacity to reason. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By this time Aeneas, who in the earlier part of the story seemed as human as Hector or Achilles, has changed into something strange and portentous; he is not a human being. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He makes me feel that before the experiment I was not really a human being. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He meant to say that all human beings are alike. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I know more about psychoactive medication than is safe for any one human being to know. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He doubted that the universe was created to provide a home for human beings any more than a palace is built for rats to live in. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was used to having other human beings right next to me, so I slept in my mom’s bed most nights. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Trout’s leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My uncle's voice, when he's speaking like a regular human being, is deep, but not in a scary way. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The press ran story after story about the brave men at the Ohio Penitentiary, praising them as “the first healthy human beings ever to agree to such rigorous cancer experiments.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We’ve got this down to a system, Natalie and I. In some ways she is very predictable, more like a clock than a human being. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I have known my share of peculiar, difficult, nervous, grabby people, but I’ve never encountered any genuinely, consistently detestable human beings in all my life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a nice break from the turmoil of his home, which lately had been filled with more relatives than any human being should be expected to endure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Not an indignant, violence-seeking monster, but a human being, honest and raw—trapped in this house with us, and scared to the bone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I'd never been so jealous of any human being before in my life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z If some spark does set the keg afire, it will be a senseless tragedy of ignorant against ignorant, injustice answering injustice—a holocaust that will drag down the innocent and right-thinking masses of human beings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing in his argument which might imply that the Earth was just another planet, or that the universe had not been created for the benefit of human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Me: Besides our standing as rational human beings? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z But human beings can also do the most terrible and evil and cruel things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z As if they could, as if human beings could make a choice. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This was crazy, trying to breathe into a real live human being. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But it doesn’t have to end up with rhinoceroses and human beings and whales. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the chimpanzee resembled a human being more than it resembled a monkey. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I think it must have been because of Mrs. Baker and her “Shakespeare is expressing something about what it means to be a human being” and the “tragic and beautiful and lovely” routine. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Isn’t experience something that all human beings have in common? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He enjoyed the individual chirps of human beings almost as much as those of his cricket. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea is that about 15,000 years ago a chance mutation let the virus “jump the species barrier,” as scientists say, and infect human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Fortunately, we do not yet know how to assemble alternative sequences of nucleotides to make alternative kinds of human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The old dog leaned against her and whipped his tail against her black stockings, happy to be in contact with a human being again. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to survive, human beings have to consume food, which is an ordered form of energy, and convert it into heat, which is a disordered form of energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the terms of our country’s founding document, slaves were defined as three-fifths of a person not a real, whole human being. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You are altogether a human being, Jane? You are certain of that?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But there was only the noise of the gathering of human beings and each man howling. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Many of these people died, Carey pointed out, “without a human being to hand them a drink of water, to administer medicines, or to perform any charitable office for them.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The lifetime of a human being is measured in decades; the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A public journal, testifying to those who will never die and those who are yet to be born, as to why we human beings do the things we do. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In addition to four trolls who looked like very small and hairy human beings, thirteen little glass men and women climbed into Elinor’s buses—and so did Darius, the unhappy stammering reader. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The Power of Context says that human beings are a lot more sensitive to their environment than they may seem. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In some ways the best description of it would be to say that it looked like a photographer’s negative, for he was seeing one ray beyond the spectrum which is visible to human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z From Homer through the tragedians and even later, there is a deepening realization of what human beings need and what they must have in their gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “How many human beings will we kill under your policy in the next twelve months?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Choctaw lore, for example, the Creator breathed life into not one but many primeval pairs of human beings scattered all over the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I could see that he suffered for Edmond as much as he could suffer for another human being. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, human beings were made in the image of God: a view hardly compatible with the notion that their senses were defective. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The girl at the register looked at me with an expression of utter and genuine sympathy that I'd never seen on another human being before, and quietly whispered, "I'm so sorry." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The possibility that human beings are involved in this sort of thing has not attracted much attention until recently. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Maybe I could get him to see me as another human being? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In addition, similar extinctions occurred when human beings first invaded Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, and the Polynesian Islands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I think about the transports from camp to camp, how I screamed inside as we passed village after village: Do you know there are human beings on this train? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For them, human beings are barely visible to the naked eye. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That’s what I think Shakespeare was trying to say about what it means to be a human being in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And he had heard the babble of voices when the station was full of human beings, and the barking of the dogs that some of them had on leashes. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep down, I guess I always suspected Mom was a real human being. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The road was deserted, as if there were no other human beings in the world. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He always said human beings spent more money feeding their pets than they did feeding the world. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Vrasayana was in charge of a brine-evaporation plant for the production of iodine, with which yeast can do without, but human beings not. His plant was forced into receivership.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Still, I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such crimes . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d never said a word about him to another human being. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I found it fascinating, a lot more substantial and scientific than Freud had been, and a lot more fruitful in terms of expanding testable knowledge on how human beings thought and learned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And we both agreed that if racism could be removed, America could offer a society where rich and poor could truly live like human beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The discovery of the New World had fatally undermined any claim that there are some things on which all human beings can agree—here were societies practising nudity and cannibalism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And if they could talk to animals, and the animals could talk to them, what didn’t they know about human beings? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Because these seeds are edible, human beings took these annuals and helped them spread across the globe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Could he find it in himself to kill another human being? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Under interrogation, he insisted that he had never commanded anyone to sacrifice a human being. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Now she knew why Maya never wrote emails or texts like a normal human being: her humor was too dark. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Baty had tried to force the fusion experience into existence for itself—and then, when that fell through, it had engineered the killing of a variety of human beings...followed by the flight to Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Kapasi led them next to one of the wheels of the chariot, higher than any human being, nine feet in diameter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I went on, “But I eat with people. I am a human being.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were searching for food and a nice place to live since human beings had been taking over their territories and forests. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Did I put the interests of the monkeys ahead of the interests of the human beings? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Seemingly, there was no end to the things that could go wrong with human beings. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Then the effort to make good on that vow is what defines us as human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Once they got here, the incomers from Dad’s novel decided to surgically remove their wings, in order to blend in better with human beings. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Mini, can the Death Danda make an illusion that looks like a human being?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z That I never had a real interest in her until she died because I’m a horrible and selfish human being? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The light was dimming, the road was straight, with neither house nor human being in view—nothing but land winter-stripped and as somber as sheet iron. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z How much less they had than other human beings. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Because a Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Plants and animals don’t just sit around waiting for human beings to use them— they use us, too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But other than Mother, Father, and Lily, Mr. Bender is the only human being I’ve seen since I woke up. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z They ran as Robert said they did, wilder than antelope, smarter than elk about human beings. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I already felt like the freak of freaks without the added realization that I lacked the basic ability of communicating normally with other human beings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It was one of the few times we were treated as human beings, and I for one responded. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals distrusted Pilkington, as a human being, but greatly preferred him to Frederick, whom they both feared and hated. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “I remember ovens. I had one”—she coughed—“once. I was a human being once.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Not once has she killed a human being.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Only Russian women went directly into battle to fight and kill other human beings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He wanted them to know both sides of their history and become the fully rounded human beings they were destined to be. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z And when the human beings listened to it, they secretly trembled, hearing in it a prophecy of their future doom. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I feel like just a hand-me-down human being! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z After all, a human being cannot be trained for these situations, he must be born for them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But horses, even in a battle, tread on human beings very much less than you would suppose. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I decide to try out for the track team, to keep my mind from being idle, and to reconnect with my fellow human beings. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He’s shown me how empty a one hundred percent human being can be. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I refuse to allow this sorry excuse for a human being have them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Our claims to knowledge, Montaigne said, are generally misconceived because we will not acknowledge our limits as human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That melted corpse was hardly even recognizable as a human being. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I made it back as quickly as any human being could, which wasn’t good enough for guess who. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was nineteen and chewed tobacco, and from his three months in automobile school he had gained a great though weary contempt for human beings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was in Alexandria, during the six hundred years beginning around 300 B.C., that human beings, in an important sense, began the intellectual adventure that has led us to the shores of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You know, when we agreed to take you in, we hoped we could improve you—build you—make you a decent human being. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I was probably more proud of being a “label” than of being a human being, that’s the way most of us were taught. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, “I don’t mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Had they taken the time to really look at us, they would have seen human beings just like themselves: some with blue eyes, some with brown. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z They are not locked into their usual the-world-is-beneath-me sneer, but hang on his face like melting cheese, creating the illusion that he is an actual human being and a sad one, at that. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “Two,” continued Powell, “a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Here is the first sentence in my essay: What Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet is that you better be careful who you trust. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Because we human beings are transitory, our lives as ephemeral as dreams, the tlamatinime suggested that immutable truth is by its nature beyond human experience. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “If he can’t talk like a human being, how do you expect him to take pictures?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked like a sad and homely human being. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Storage in human beings has been well investigated, and we know that the average person is storing potentially harmful amounts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How I knew there was a human being there was not clear to me then. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He does not argue that animals are as intelligent as human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She was just being a decent human being. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I was now married to one of the most heavily guarded human beings on earth. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Maybe it isn’t a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he’s been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Everyone asks that and no one knows the answer. As long as there have been human beings, they have had daemons. It’s what makes us different from animals.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She said the only time he actually talked like a normal human being was sometimes when he was big tired and they were eating dinner before he went to bed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I like this, patron. In union there is strength, as Father Jose Dulce Maria says. If the hens can overcome the fox, what about human beings?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was about as black as a human being could get and as thick as he was wide. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Equal human beings, or goods that belonged to their owners? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z From the very first day, Father saw Dr. Lange for the manipulative and evil human being he was. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Remember, he’s fighting us. He’s on his guard. The only way we can catch him is to outsmart him—and, within his limitations, he can think much more quickly than a human being.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “I knew you were amazing, Janna!” she says, as if being like her immediately catapults me into another class of human beings. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I should scream, like any rational human being would, but when I open my mouth again, I just crow with joy. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It killed monkeys like flies, they were dripping virus from every pore, yet no human being had crashed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were so many human beings that they couldn’t even see the newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then that he decided that no human being, not even Úrsula, could come closer to him than ten feet. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It wasn’t much of a disguise, but it would have to do, on the off chance he saw another human being between Harvey’s and home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Now, no human being wants to be in a cemetery at night—no normal one, anyway—but I had to find Gideon's compass. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Because in reality, he said, “rehabilitation is not our job. The truth of it is that we are warehousers of human beings.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrank back into my chair and remembered when I used to be a human being. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z When I asked Mother why they didn't act like that, she said it was because they were decent human beings, members of the Baptist organization, who understood we were equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I expected he would be sick for several days—I remembered the course of illness in Mr. Loomis—but I guess dogs react differently from human beings, for by nightfall he was dead. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Even if they were dollar amounts or cargo numbers, one way or another they all traced back to human beings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But August’s face is not so easily fixed, so there will be no elephant act until he looks like a human being again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Every time I turn on the news and see another black person gunned down, I'm reminded that people look at me and see a threat instead of a human being. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to spoil his mood by reminding him that Lice Peeking wasn’t the most reliable human being on the island. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But as she strode past the messy room, determined to act like a decent human being, she heard a strangled little squeak. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He treated me—even then—as a human being. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Our ancestors saw what war does to human beings. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragged behind a whale trying as hard as it can to get away from the human beings that hunted it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z How strange, I thought, that dogs sometimes understood the needs and behaviors of human beings. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Certainly,” said Bogert, irritably, “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow him to come to harm.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A central tenet of the Kodály approach is that music belongs to everyone—that an education in music is the right of every human being and cannot be left to chance. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The hardest thing for Rusakov to understand was why the new particle seemed to cluster where human beings were, as if it were attracted to us. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Since then, the claims of the postmodernists notwithstanding, we have learnt to develop reliable knowledge, even though we as human beings have continued to be as fallible as ever. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At present, when few human beings even have enough to eat, this problem is obviously not urgent, and it might not have become so, even if no artificial processes of destruction had been at work. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Confided in, trusted, one given human being who they believed was different. As you said, special.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “He’s taking us to a dungeon, right? That human beings use? The passages would have to be clear. Regular people can’t use magic to get through underwater tunnels.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Also, every ‘good’ human being is supposed to love others as himself, protect his fellow man, risk his life to save another. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “All right” Tally held his hand tight They unfolded the hoverboard and waited as the sun climbed, watching for any sign of a human being below. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like the chimps, we human beings have two sides to our nature. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Myron reached the bottom of the steps with the biggest, goofiest, dorkiest smile I had ever seen on a human being. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The book in which I found that passage was full of tables and graphs showing the results of experiments on frogs, salamanders, rats, apes, and human beings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The problem is this: how are human beings connected? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Gethenian sexual physiology, so far as we yet know, is unique among human beings.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In fact, as long as there have been human beings, I suspect that they have wondered about the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had the wonderful ability of being able to make all who knew her feel that they were special to her as individual human beings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As yet there were no human beings; but the world, now cleared of the monsters, was ready for mankind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The addict steals, he hustles in other ways; he preys upon other human beings like a hawk or a vulture—as I did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She chewed up a toothbrush pill, punched her pillows, and shoved an old portable heater—one that produced about as much warmth as a sleeping, Tally-size human being—under the covers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z You may notice your fangs getting longer and you may have a sudden desire to devour human beings. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It is possible that the experimenters wished to see whether human beings lacking continuous sexual potentiality would remain intelligent and capable of culture. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Ever since he talked to me like a decent human being at church, my tolerance levels for Curtis have been much higher. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He was breathing about as hard as any human being can breathe. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Nothing has changed; now you just have a better idea of your own limitations. Every human being has limitations, even GPs.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He yawned—for ants do yawn—and stretch themselves too, like human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I said Luke wasn’t a fish or a piece of dirt either, he was a human being and could make his own decisions. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole problem of pesticide poisoning is enormously complicated by the fact that a human being, unlike a laboratory animal living under rigidly controlled conditions, is never exposed to one chemical alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They have evolved to live with human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But who’s to say that his mother, before she was nabbed by Thirsty, hadn’t caught a human being? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Will found himself hating and fearing her more than any human being he had ever known. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “At being with you and being a normal human being with, like, minimally functional conversational skills. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z But now, with a helpless human being lying in the cot, one so dependent on others that her very existence had to be proof of a higher goodness, things had changed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They were the only two human beings in that vast gulf of death. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z |
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