“If Peter has learned one thing about human nature during all his years in hockey, it’s that almost everyone regards themselves as… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“We Will Let You Down: If We’re Close Enough to Help, We’re Close Enough to Hurt Bob Nobody wants to be the… — J.R. Briggs Copy Share Image
It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We… — Bindi Irwin Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Bizarrely, almost every statist admits that politicians are more dishonest, corrupt, conniving and selfish than most people, but still insists that civilization… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'? — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he’d been called from his bed before… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.” — Alan Sheinwald Copy Share Image
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
It is just human nature for managers/leaders to have favorites in mind. It is normal. It just becomes too wrong though when… — Myron Sta Ana Copy Share Image
“Each time we come to savasana, we practice dying—we surrender the body to the earth and prepare for our destiny in this… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
