... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They imagine how grand it used to be, their memories enhanced by a decade of stories—it is human nature to believe that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Most stories are not about people but about life, an addiction like the rest of them that destroys you even as you… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
“The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after"… — Eddie Muller Copy Share Image
The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The trouble with mimetic fiction isn’t that you can tell what’s going to happen (I defy anyone to guess what’s going to… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are… — Rafael Sabatini 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
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had… — M.B. Wilmot Copy Share Image
Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of… — Ray Dalio 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
I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn't… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
That's a part of human nature that men and women, women and women, whatever your sexuality, you flirt with each other and… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
“If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Love is a minefield. You take a step and get blown to pieces put yourself back together again and stupidly take another… — From LOVE And SEX Movie Copy Share Image
“We can be blind to our own faults. Our own flaws. They call it being human. The universe or whatever you want… — Abigail George Copy Share Image
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons… — Rollo May 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
“En natt i lengst forsvundne tider våknet mennesket og så seg selv... da dyrene kom til sine vannhull, hvor han ventet dem… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time… — William D Tammeus Copy Share Image
