Mambres Quotes & Sayings

Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is much less understood, as yet, than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring a happiness into our lives which machines and the physical sciences have failed to create. — Bertrand Russell

The chair was Claire's, it belonged to my wife. Without a doubt, he could now feel her body heat, left behind on the seat, right through the cloth of his trousers. The thought of it made me furious. — Herman Koch

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. — Terry Goodkind

Tell her stories to alleviate her inquietude; for stories always amuse the ladies, and it is only by interesting them that one can succeed in the world. Mambres — Voltaire

Her lack of outward expression was similar to the way a thermos is never hot on the outside: No matter what was going on inside, it never affected the surface. — Otsuichi

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living. — Robin Roberts