Quotes of: Human-nature Keyword

It is love’s nature to be expressed.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

James Cameron

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Sidney Hook

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Carrot Top

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Toru Takemitsu

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

Marieta Maglas

If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point in history, they would have embarked on a quest to become immortals, like the gods. But they couldn’t and the whole of humanity st...

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly us...

Into the Wind: The Art of the Kite

It wasn’t human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn’t need to be fixed; or, infinitely worse, trying to fix things that were broken, because some things are meant to be broken--

Just Plain Weird

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

Murder on the Orient Express

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are...

Northanger Abbey

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and beq...

Strong Poison

It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible.  Why?  Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of t...

Then We Came to the End

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud. "It certainly helps," Vivian says.

Orphan Train

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool.

United We Spy

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to ...

Samuel Johnson