#natures

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#else #everything #invent #issued #lungs

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#equality #exercise #give #great #great souls

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#certainly #checks #directors #like #many

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#live #lives #love #more #natures

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#been #coming #fascinates #fascination #go

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#been #coming #fascinates #fascination #humans

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#decent #develop #environment #force #inarticulate

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#natures #pure #truth

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#converted #dust #fiction #into #life

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#alien #been #dumb #evil #good