“For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth… — Salman Rushdie 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
I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal… — Liza Mundy Copy Share Image
“The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims,… — Michael Talbot Copy Share Image
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the… — William James Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I have a whole section of a filing cabinet in my office full of ideas. Some are ideas for books or articles… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone,… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I think that we each inhabit alternative bubbles of reality.” — N.S. Wikarski Copy Share Image
“When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For me, if I have done my duty, the continued approbation of Congress and the Marine Committee will make me rich indeed,… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is human nature. If we surround ourselves with evil, even evil becomes good to us. If we are not careful, that… — Bruce Newbold Copy Share Image
“Nobody can be strong all of the time. That’s why it’s in our human nature to seek another soul out there. Someone… — K. Webster Copy Share Image
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The materialist philosophy says that in a godless world all we need do to overthrow the laws of economics and the limits… — John C Wright Copy Share Image
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one… — Plato Copy Share Image
I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image