Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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.

David Hume

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Jami Gertz

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Baltasar Gracian

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Jane Smiley

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Susan Cutter

Given the complexities of emergency management in this country, and the increasing professionalism of the community, it seems curious to me that we wouldn't appoint someone who comes out of that tradition.

Gerry Wright

We were curious to see where these things might come from in the first place, so it seemed that was a logical place to start. I expect lots of these (drug-resistant) genes are peppered all over the microbial community.

Eugene Wilson

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Suzanne Somers

I find that one of the most curious things is that I have fractionalized audiences. I have people who only know me from the books.

John Griffin

Since I've been doing this I've only been turned down three times, once nearly by gunpoint, ... Most people are curious to see if there was something on their property.

James L. Brooks

I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.

Ken Hitchcock

I am excited and curious to see how we respond. In games 5, 6 and 7, you get a defining message on what you are going to be down the road, whether it's the next series or whatever.

Dana Goodyear

The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

Caroline Dhavernas

I'm curious to see what kind of distribution it's going to get because of that.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Kenneth R. Miller

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

Vincent Bugliosi

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

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.

Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Orlando Bloom

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Peter Singer

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Paul Bloom

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.