Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature. . . . I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
I can't legislate to change human nature.
I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.
These are not vague inferences. . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.