One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of… — Chris Hondros Copy Share Image
“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have… — John Jay Copy Share Image
“I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch… — Leslie McFarlane Copy Share Image
A lot of time I fight guys and after a few rounds, they accept my dominance. They aren't fighting to win anymore.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Woulda, shoulda, coulda. It's human nature to assume that we have that sort of control over what happens to us, but the… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Clearly, the Fall was not just an isolated act of disobedience that could be quickly mended. Every part of God's good handiwork… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, Christian editors had long understood that nothing attracted more readers to their religious rags than speculation about the destruction of everyone… — Matthew Avery Sutton Copy Share Image
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We live in an era where everyone is terrified of being caught trying. So, the defense mechanism is to pretend you never… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law… — William Pickens Copy Share Image
A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“My love for chaos, conspiracy and the dark side of human nature colors the behavior of my charges, most of whom are… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening.… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
“It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much… — Linda Marie Fedigan Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Let us let nature control itself because I doubt a a race that been around for a million years has more wisdom… — MrAwesome Copy Share Image
“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image