Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I like to gamble. I'd rather win big and lose as well then cling on abjectly and live at the mercy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart” — Jeffrey Moore Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
“Tell me, have you done much circus work in your life?' [asked Mulder]. Nutt drew himself up to his full height. 'And… — Les Martin Copy Share Image
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached,… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to… — William James Copy Share Image
People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“People with no experience of life except under communist regimes would tell me that they knew—though they were unsure how—that their life… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Faith is like a diamond...Overvalued, incredibly common, and gained through bloodshed? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.” — Nocturnus Libertus Copy Share Image
“In the human mind, doubt has a faster rate of growth than even hope, and we know what that meant for poor… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Character in it's noblest embodiments exemplifies human nature in its highest form, for it exhibits man at his best — Derick Copy Share Image
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have any friends who aren't struggling in an adult relationship. That's human nature. — Myha'la Copy Share Image
“When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all.” — T.A. Uner Copy Share Image
I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways. — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature… I would write of characters, not of characteristics. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image