Nature of man Quote by Willard Sterne Randall

“... he felt unusually warm toward humankind. He even thought that it could warm to him. Everyone, all of us, individually facing oblivion as…

— Ian McEwan

“Oh my gosh! I was a hamster on the conditioned wheel of self-improvement. I never truly respected or valued my uniqueness as a human…

— Penny De Villiers

“And even now, at the rueful age of sixty-six, I find my knees still turn to water when I encounter anyone who still considers…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Benedict, but they say he doesn’t set himself up on a pedestal.”

— Ken Follett

“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow,…

— Shūsaku Endō

“But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The genius of Saint Benedict is to find the presence of God in everyday life.”

— Rod Dreher

“We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.”

— Gary Zukav

“There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other…

— Elif Shafak

“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.”

— Geraldine Brooks