“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
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“I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.”
“You can't just let nature run wild.”
“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.”
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”
“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.”
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”
“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
“In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
“It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.”
“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our b-----s for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”
“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”
“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.”
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
“To insult someone we call him 'b-----l. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.”
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.”
“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”
“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”