I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always,… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“as Schulz himself has pointed out, Snoopy is capable of being 'one of the meanest' members of the entire Peanuts cast ...… — Robert L. Short Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Vulnerability may seem like a weakness, but in truth, it is a strength for being able to show you can be vulnerable,… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to… — Milan Kundera 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 love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for… — Herbert Wind Copy Share Image
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Squid Game' is a story about human nature that most people can already relate to, yet everything is communicated through easy-to-follow childhood… — HoYeon Jung Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circumstance could change and… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image