Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Henry George

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

John Adams

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Ellen Glasgow

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Bill Maher

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Swami Vivekananda

Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies.

Mercedes Ruehl

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Ray Anderson

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Christine Quinn

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.