From The Crooked Timber Of Humanity Quotes

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

Immanuel Kant

#2. 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

#3. The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.

Evo Morales

#4. Outside of Christ, my songs have no value

Larry Norman

#5. If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

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

Immanuel Kant

#7. I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

Adam Ferrara

#8. The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

Peter McWilliams

#9. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

Judith Krantz

#10. Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

Jeet Banerjee

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

Immanuel Kant

#12. Life is like an echo! when you give something, it comes back to you many, many times.

Choa Kok Sui

#13. There had to be men out there besides Pop and Howard who didn't smell like pork and sizzle in the morning.

Lia Fairchild

#14. 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

#15. People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

Steve Jobs

#16. People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

Kate Bernheimer