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.

Mark Feinberg

It is not our intention in any way, shape or form to promote our vaccine as a substitute for any other prevention approach, be it abstinence or screening.

Robert South

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Sam Reed

I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.

Joycelyn Elders

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Atharva Veda

Abstinence from sinful deeds not only ensures freedom from 'pains' but it also bless us with good health and long life.

Antonya Nelson

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

Rick Perry

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Abstinence is approved of God.

Crawford Falconer

I would not want to over-exaggerate (but) ... they represent a degree of momentum. Let's see whether there is the appetite there to really try and move it forward.

John Furlong

It comes down to what kind of appetite the community has for the Games.

Dick Cheney

It is a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

Robert Thompson

I think the American culture right now is in a state where we have an unlimited appetite for irony. The great thing about a weird pageant is, if you don't win, is that really a bad thing?

Tracey Gold

I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

Takahiko Murai

Investor appetite for select technology stocks is solid as the sector has paused in the past year.

David Greene

If you look at Macao, you'd say that no one has ever put to the test the appetite for the Chinese for anything other than gambling.

Lauren Zalaznick

Clearly, there's an appetite from Bravo television viewers for increased flow of content that a linear TV channel can't provide. This on-demand push makes great Bravo content that there isn't room for on TV available 24/7.

Franz Pumaren

I'm glad that we have a big appetite. They don't easily get satisfied. Hopefully we can defend it.