637 quotes found
“We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.”
“In the long run one gets used to anything.”
“A well-behaved person is not always well-dressed.”
“...men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.”
“If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”
“The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.”
“... the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alenon, Pg, 64”
“Humans are the smallest organs of the human body.”
“Misery, after all, loves company.”
“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is ne...”
“Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. Were still in the cave. Its just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the col...”
“Ginny Cupper took me in her car out to the spread fields of Indiana. Parking near the edge of woods and walking out into the sunny rows of corn, waving seeds to a yellow horizon. She wore a white b...”
“The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.”
“In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.”
“Rather than there being two distinct and unambiguous categories ofconstrained and unconstrained (or tragic and utopian) visions of humannature, I think there is just one vision with a sliding scale...”
“She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.”
“For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.”
“Those who cannot dance, should not dance.”
“Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.”
“I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.”
