Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“his legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
“Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?” — E.A. Bucchianeri 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
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Because when it comes down to it, the only thing that will never change is human nature. When given the choice, people… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
“The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have… — John Jay Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals!… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on; And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly. That’s… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.… — Huineng Copy Share Image
“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
