The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up [and] the next we… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness,… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
The Space Between Our Fingers Were Created So That Another Person's Fingers Could Fill Them In. Hope You'll Find Your Dreams Hand… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, 'Man, you've been in a lot of bands.' Yes, I… — John Corabi Copy Share Image
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“entrance of the Rev. Clement Sclater -- the minister of her parish, recently appointed. He was a man between young and middle-aged,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf wrote famously, “About December 1910 human nature changed.” Well, one doubts it. What did change, and has been changing all… — Deirdre McCloskey Copy Share Image
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. His fathers were mighty… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“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
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game,… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll… — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Copy Share Image
I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something;… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
We can't make excuses in sinning, saying that it's human nature because God has made us in His image. He made us… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately.… — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and… — Elizabeth Fama Copy Share Image
He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are born with greed and malicious thoughts that's why these things are easy to understand. But not everybody has kindness, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image