637 quotes found
“Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world”
“He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man”
“Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”
“As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.”
“He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.”
“Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being amo...”
“The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.”
“The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell th...”
“he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives”
“friends are thieves of time”
“You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel”
“Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?”
“No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some kind of shorthand in understanding people, and we think it works, and we use it to assess...”
“That is the way with all of your kind It is how you are made; you must all strive to claw your way over the backs of your fellow humans during the short time you are permitted in the universe, bree...”
“...suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.”
“We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.”
“People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed”
“Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself”
“...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.”
“Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made self-interest the motive of all human action, but in the great host of men she pro...”
