Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés human-nature
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!
William GoldingMots clés human-nature
There’s something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot…It’s significant…Because somebody has to take them in…And if you know that, and you do it for that one guy, you do something else. You join the world…You move out of your isolation and become universal.
Andre DubusMots clés human-nature
What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.
Edith WhartonMots clés human-nature
You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.
Louis KhanMots clés human-nature circumstances
The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear—civilization’s fear of nature, men’s fear of women, power’s fear of powerlessness. Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Arundhati RoyMots clés history human-nature psychology civilisation
To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a spectacular accident--and then to be whisked away from it so suddenly--brought to the edge of tragedy, and then to have their better natures win out, showing them how much nicer they always /knew/ they were--that was the supreme thrill.
Harlan EllisonMots clés human-nature accidents
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
E.M. ForsterMots clés human-nature
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
Mots clés society human-nature rationality differentiation
It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.
Richelle E. GoodrichMots clés human-nature impossible accomplishments impossibility richelle innate richelle-goodrich
« ; premier précédent
Page 37 de 52.
suivant dernier » ;
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.