Human nature Quote by Nadine Gordimer Download Open image “Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature” — Nadine Gordimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human nature Humans Language Stills Worst Writing Written Written word
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. — The Buddha Copy Share Image
Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Words are powerful. They have the ability to create a moment and the strength to destroy it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been hurt and… — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
“Words start wars and end them, create love and choke it, bring us to laughter and joy and tears. Words cause men and women… — Roy Williams Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands the lower… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Though there may be people in your life that support you and encourage you we have to realize that people are only human, and… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.” — Arthur Graham Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image