Crooked Timber Quotes

#1. Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.

George Will

#2. From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.

Immanuel Kant

#3. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Immanuel Kant

#4. Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

Immanuel Kant

#5. From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Immanuel Kant

#6. Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Immanuel Kant

#7. Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

Peter Kay

#8. When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.

Michael Eisen

#9. Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. We're all Earthlings so
Be kind to each other

Debby Feo

#11. Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside ... then there come's love ... and increasingly; the fear of death.

John Betjeman

#12. The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it ... Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Socrates

#13. Zimmermann believed that everybody deserved the right to the privacy that was offered by RSA encryption, and he directed his political zeal toward developing an RSA encryption product for the masses.

Simon Singh

#14. According to Mattress Mattie you couldn't make money in bed by yourself, so I had no choice but to get wet and dirty.

Liliana Hart

#15. At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Ibrahim Babangida

#16. Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Homer

#17. As they say, everybody wins. Of course, an exchange at a single moment in time only pays when there is a division of labor.

Steven Pinker