It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cruelty is a part of nature at least of human nature but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness the human soul is apt to revive also.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Nature I have constantly argued in my work is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate randomly recarving geography over 10 000-year epochs.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other it seems to me in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband that they belong to each other in the name of Nature and are lovers by Divine right in spite of human convention or the laws.

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

What constitutes a real live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days and men each one of whom is a valuable unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species including Americans.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers ' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

There's something in human nature the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.