Lowness Pf Our Nature Quotes & Sayings

There can hardly be a plainer proof of the lowness of our nature, until we have laid hold of the higher nature that belongs to us by birthright, than this, that even a just anger tends to make us unjust and unkind. — George MacDonald

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything. — Stephen Chbosky

your level of engagement and enthusiasm will skyrocket when you decide to participate only in projects you can be fully invested in and be a part of from beginning to end. — Brendon Burchard

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe. — Azar Nafisi

I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is. — Phyllis Logan

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths. — Joshua Oppenheimer

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean. — Aristotle.

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular. — David Hare

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams

Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night. — Lauren Lapkus

If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help. — Bobby McFerrin

The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected ... Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned. — Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Doctor," came the reply, "I'm going to do all the things you tell me not to do. If I've got to live the sort of life you have described, I don't care how short it is." Having spat the wormwood out, — Edmund Morris

Peering at the crest, with its faded leopard couchant, — Diana Gabaldon

I didn't need to transform after all.
My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all. — Holly Smale

Where are you idiots taking me?"
"Patience, Lada," Mehmed said.
"I am going to start sleeping with a knife."
"If you had had a knife, you would have killed me!"
"Yes, exactly. And then I could have gone back to sleep."
Radu snorted. "Nothing like cuddling a corpse to give you sweet dreams. — Kiersten White