Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“This is good. Yes, I'm crying. But it'll feel better. This is just human nature, healing an old wound to prepare for… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“So there was no excuse; nothing whatever the matter, except the sin for which human nature had condemned him to death; that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it… — GE Paulus Copy Share Image
I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Promoting promiscuity in this evolved and civilized society is actually like signing the Declaration, that says: “I hereby renounce my membership of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We are able to overcome grievances towards others when we understand that everyone is acting from their own fallible experiences in life.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Tell me, have you done much circus work in your life?' [asked Mulder]. Nutt drew himself up to his full height. 'And… — Les Martin Copy Share Image
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence --… — Hans Silvester Copy Share Image
People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. The confusion in this world is that people are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and… — Dane Rudhyar Copy Share Image
The music was great for teaching about human nature. but I couldn't do any instruments or play anything. I like to sing.… — Kevin Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to… — Osho Copy Share Image
The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Always stay in a company of a people who are loyal and trustworthy. People, who listen to what you tell them, are… — Ashok Kushwaha Copy Share Image
The Tantric way is open to all the richness of human nature, which it accepts without a single restriction. It is probably… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“Help anyone who comes to you, as much as lies in your power, not because you are good person, nor because you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Let us let nature control itself because I doubt a a race that been around for a million years has more wisdom… — MrAwesome Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image