It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.' — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans. — Rumi Copy Share Image
But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently . — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything… — Jerry Kramer Copy Share Image
The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root… — Salvador Bernal Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest, Christ Pratt is one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my entire life. He really… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has… — Joseph Rusling Meeker Copy Share Image
The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The human reached inside Wrath’s jacket and started pulling out weapons. Three throwing stars, a switchblade, a handgun, a length of chain.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human. — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
