Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 1419.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
The Lost World (2015) 72 -
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
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There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Mozart, His Character, His Work (1962)
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