Human nature quotes

“Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world? Either way it is a historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier

“- Tracy Lord: How do I look?
- Seth Lord: Like a queen. Like a goddess.
- Tracy Lord: And do you know how I feel?
- Seth Lord: How?
- Tracy Lord: Like a human. Like a human being.”
Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord
John Halliday - Seth Lord

“In your heart, in your soul, you are alone. That is why you separated your sexes, for that brief union.”

Louis Gossett Jr. - Drac

“- Bob Diamond: Being from Earth, as you are, and using as little of your brain as you do, your life has pretty much been devoted to dealing with fear.
- Daniel Miller: It has?
- Bob Diamond: Well everybody on Earth deals with fear - that's what little brains do.”
Rip Torn - Bob Diamond
Albert Brooks - Daniel Miller

“- Captain James T. Kirk: Spock, you want to know something? Everybody's human.
- Captain Spock: I find that remark... insulting.”
William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“A person can't escape their nature.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

- McCoy: This is the probe's way of saying, "Hello" to the people of Earth?
- Spock: There are other species on earth. Only human arrogance would assume the signal must be meant for mankind.
DeForest Kelley - McCoy
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“- Thetis: What a dangerous precedent. What if there more heroes like him? What if courage and imagination became everyday mortal qualities? What will become of us?
- Zeus: We would no longer be needed. But, for the moment, there is sufficient cowardice, sloth and mendacity down there on Earth to last forever.”

Maggie Smith - Thetis
Laurence Olivier - Zeus

“Both men and women want to have sex. It's natural, except we're on different timetables. Women want to have sex fifteen minutes after us. So if you hold out for twenty, she'll be chasing you for five.”
Donal Logue - Dex

“Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.”
Helmut Bakaitis - The Architect

“- Zak: What are you supposed to be, some kind of fairy?
- Crysta: Of course I am. What about you? Are you really a human?
- Zak: Last time I checked.”
Jonathan Ward - Zak
Samantha Mathis - Crysta

“We all come from a factory and, sometimes, the factory makes bad machines. They don't work. So, they put them here. The bad machines don't know that they're bad machines. But, the people at the factory know. They know that you are one of the machines that doesn't work.”
Peter Jeffrey - Ahmet

“- James T. Kirk: What it needs in order to evolve... is a human quality. Our capacity to leap beyond logic.
- Decker: And joining with its creator might accomplish that.
- Dr. McCoy: You mean this machine wants to physically join with a human? Is that possible?
- Decker: Let's find out.”

William Shatner - James T. Kirk
Stephen Collins - Decker
DeForest Kelley - Dr. McCoy

“- McCoy: Are you out of your Vulcan mind? No human can tolerate the radiation that's in there!
- Spock: As you are so fond of observing, doctor, I am not human.”

DeForest Kelley - McCoy
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“- Ben: It's a human life. You don't think God sees?
- Judah Rosenthal: God is a luxury I can't afford.”
Sam Waterston - Ben
Martin Landau - Judah Rosenthal

“All we are is dust in the wind.”
Will Ferrell - Frank

“He's not human! He can go through anything, prison walls, everything!”

William Harrigan - Dr. Arthur Kemp

“I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.”
Brad Pitt - Louis

“As a fellow playwright you understand how narrow the line dividing comedy and tragedy.”

Walter Kingsford - Colbert

“There's sex and there's love, that's what differentiates humans from animals.”
Tom Everett Scott - Andy McDermott

“- Blade: I'm not human.
- Karen: You look human to me.
- Blade: Humans don't drink blood.
- Karen: That was a long time ago. Maybe you should let that go?
- Blade: I have spent my whole life lookin' for that thing that killed my mother, and made me what I am. And every time I take one of those monsters out, I get a little piece of that life...” (continue)(continue reading)
Wesley Snipes - Blade
N'Bushe Wright - Karen

“Some people go fishing or hunting or go to war. Others commit crimes of passion. Some commit suicide. You have to kill someone.”
Robert Le Vigan - Le peintre

“- Pvt. Cooper: What scares you?
- Cpl. Bruce Campbell: The self-destructive nature of the human condition.”
Kevin McKidd - Pvt. Cooper
Thomas Lockyer - Cpl. Bruce Campbell

There's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and irration, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature".
G.D. Spradlin - General Corman

“Don't fear the weapon, fear the man.”
Tzi Ma - Kinman Tau