The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book.… — James Vance Copy Share Image
You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
“She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“We're strange creatures, we humans. At one level, we just want to eat, drink, play, and acquire more stuff. But life on… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
“For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet… — Rose George Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true… — James Fisher Copy Share Image
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense… — Kirk Cousins Copy Share Image
American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . .… — Walter B. Pitkin Copy Share Image
“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are born with greed and malicious thoughts that's why these things are easy to understand. But not everybody has kindness, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and… — Elizabeth Fama Copy Share Image
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately.… — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
We can't make excuses in sinning, saying that it's human nature because God has made us in His image. He made us… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
“It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In a world like that, there would be no need for love anymore either. If everyone were perfect, there would be no… — The World God Only Knows Copy Share Image
Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image