Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

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

Robinson Jeffers

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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.

Laurence Sterne

Human nature is the same in all professions.

Orson Welles

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

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.

H. Hunt

He will talk about humans as innately violent and innately altruistic, both.

Romeo Dallaire

Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?

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!

Bruce Alberts

In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.

Ian Wilmut

I think now to contemplate using our present technique with humans would be quite inhuman,

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Lawrence Bender

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Sheryl Sandberg

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Robert J. Shiller

Each profession has its own toolkit.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.