We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily. — Celeste Holm Copy Share Image
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Det økologiske siktepunkt forutsetter akseptering av at store fisk spiser små, men ikke nødvendigvis at store menn kverker små.” — Arne Næss Copy Share Image
Definition of Human Being:A creature that cuts trees,makes paper & writes Save Trees on the same paper — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“we often envy our own abilities to escape -- as even in daydreams we find reason for an end." from Human Nature” — Tarringo T. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?” — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
“Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good-and-bad of it, and it is hard to trust those who do not admit… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on; And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly. That’s… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?" "Yes. They're prideful and tend… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Every one knows how absurd it would be to infer from what a man is or does when in a private station,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yunus, now a famous Nobel Prize winner, was invited to meet with the CEO of Adidas, who wanted to understand the concept… — Eric H.F. Law Copy Share Image
It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President! — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
“We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go. "Aren't we all?" she said...” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the strength of social pressure is one of the greatest forces in the world. The only force that is stronger is… — Victoria Goddard Copy Share Image
Say good about yourself and youll be called arrogant; say bad about yourself and youll be believed. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.” — Hannibal Lecture Copy Share Image
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person. — Vicky Beeching Copy Share Image
