Human nature quotes
425 human nature quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Hard Candy
“- Jeff Kohlver: You and your mom are both wacked?
- Hayley Stark: There's that whole nature versus nurture question, isn't it? Was I born a cute, vindictive, little bitch or did society make me that way? I go back and forth on that.” - From the movie: Zero Dark Thirty
“It's cool, that you're strong and I respect it, I do. But in the end, everybody breaks, bro. It's biology.”
- From the movie: Short Circuit 2
“- Fred Ritter: I thought you said this thing mis-functioned on you.
- Ben Jahveri: Oh, that is a falsity. What actually happened was we were working on him one day and suddenly he is struck by lightning. And, from this moment on, he's having a mind of his own. So, the government tried to destroy him so he ran away. So, now he's living with my...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
“Earth, birthplace of the human race. A species much like our own, capable of great compassion and great violence.”
- From the movie: Star Trek: Nemesis
“I will always be puzzled by the human predilection for piloting vehicles at unsafe velocities.”
- From the movie: The Number 23
- From the movie: Threesome
“Solitude brought out the worst in me. It gave me time to brood over the nature of things.”
- From the movie: The Green Mile
“People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.”
- From the movie: Sullivan's Travels
- From the movie: Lady in the Water
“Men thinks they are each alone in this world. It is not true. You are all connected. One act can one day affect all.”
“They mix and match our memories as they see fit, trying to divine what makes us unique.”
- From the movie: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
“You are a human being and there are limitations. You can't run away from it. You can't hide from it and you can't change it. It simply is.”
- From the movie: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
“- Fred: I'm affraid. I'm a wimp?
- Daphne: That doesn't make you a wimp. Makes you human.” - From the movie: About a Boy
“All men are islands. And what's more, this is the time to be one. This is an island age. A hundred years ago, for example, you had to depend on other people. No one had TV or CDs or DVDs or home espresso makers. As a matter of fact they didn't have anything cool. Whereas now you can make yourself a little island paradise. With the right supplies...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: The American
- From the animation: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“- Hugo: You're human, with the flesh, and the hair, and the navel lint. We're just part of the architecture. Right, Victor?
- Victor: Yet, if you kick us, do we not flake? If you moisten us, do we not grow moss?” - From the movie: Superman Returns
“The human heart is still subject to monstrous deceits.”
“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”
- From the movie: Invictus
- From the movie: Rocky Balboa
“- Rocky Balboa: Ya know they always say if you live in one place long enough, you are that place.
- Paulie: I ain't no talking building, Rock.” - From the movie: A Dangerous Method
“It seems to me the measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.”
- From the movie: Color of Night
- From the movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“It is a hard way, the way of being a man. Sooner or later we all want a thing that is bad. To walk on all fours. To suck up drink from a stream. To jabber, instead of saying the words. To go snuffling at the earth, and to claw on the bark of trees. To eat flesh, or fish. To make love to more than one, every which way. These are all bad things....” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Saw IV
“Things aren't sequential. Good doesn't lead to good nor bad to bad. People steal, don't get caught. Live the good life. Others lie, cheat and get elected. Some people stop to help a stranded motorist and get taken out by a speeding semi. There's no accounting for it. How you play the cards you're dealt, that's all that matters.”
- From the movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street
“What is seen is not always what is real. According to Shakespeare, there was something operating in nature, perhaps inside human nature itself, that was rotten.”
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