“...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quickly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
“Can this be in human nature! — Can such horrible perversion of right be permitted! Can man, who calls himself endowed with… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Tessa fought down an impulse to snap. Colin had a habit of making sweeping judgements based on first impressions, on single actions.… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
“Incarnation' does not originally mean (as it tends to today in some theologies of history, and in some kinds of Anglican today)… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“But what else could we do but hope? that, after all, is human nature.” — Thomas Buergenthal Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman whos broken, put… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature.… — Borns Copy Share Image
