"Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Human Nature Quotes #Humans Quotes

“She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.”
“The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.”
“I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.”

Source : "Golden Globes 2015: rapper Common's memorable, winning speech" by Lorraine Ali, www.latimes.com. January 12, 2015.
“Isn't it about time that we stopped wasting so much time on what a person prefers?”
“The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.”
“I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.”
“While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.”
“... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.”

Source : Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.75, Random House

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