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.

Roseanne Barr

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Friedrich Schiller

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Joshua Reynolds

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

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,