Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Arquette

For movie "Human Nature": "I made a pubic wig.

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.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Edward Abbey

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Alexander Hamilton

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...

William Shakespeare

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

Wayne Mason

It is a shame there was such a setback there.

Rob Gray

It is a shame that the work has been done in the way it has.

Stephen Push

I think it's shameful that they didn't warn the American people.

Ruby Ali

I think it's shameful that there is no barrier.

Terence Smith

I thought it was a shame that I didn't know my own.

James Gray

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

Diane Watson

Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Kevin Kwan

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Chelsea Levine

I have always wanted to experience living in another country. I want to learn their customs and the way they do things.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Lynn Flewelling

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Michael Osterholm

To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could have enough smallpox in there to start the world's worst epidemic.

Leila Janah

We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.