Nature Quotes

Space is limitless, and so is our appetite to master it.

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.

We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.

Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.

Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.

The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?

Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.

When you are in a dark place, you tend to sit back and wait for the light to come. But it won't: because, you are the only one who can find your inner light.

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.

The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.

People are simple. People are complicated.

Always compete upwards, as otherwise you’ll find yourself reduced as a human.

Bad people take minimal time to coincide their objectives, but good people take for ever to put faith in each others intents.

If we deny ourselves the unique human faculty of learning from others’ mistakes, we deny oneself the chance to be a human.

Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.

There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people, ' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always, ' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.

Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people.

Maybe he’ll be different from who he was and always is.

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order.

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.

Don't ever think you're alone here, We've just been trapped in different hells, And people aren't against you dear, They're just all for themselves.

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

When we do something wrong we want people to forgive us but when someone does something wrong we never want to forgive them.

For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.

Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place.

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.

Loneliness changes you more than time.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father

You’re either good, or you’re clever.

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other.

The present and the future are about sense-making, about what we as humans value.

Once you enjoy playing the game too much, you stop looking at the score..!!