Quotes About Man's Dual Nature

#1. It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

Gail Zappa

#3. An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

Charles Baudelaire

#4. Most people think they are searching for truth when they are really searching for love

Harold Klemp

#5. A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

John Sterling

#6. We all have a dual nature,some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for an Urban Goddess

Laney Zukerman

#7. I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Nancy Friday

#9. I closed my eyes and leaned back into his body; his fingers kneaded my hips, caressed my stomach. God, it felt good.

Andrea Cremer

#10. In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

Adam Ross

#12. His name was spicy and elastic, like cinnamon gum.

R. J. Anderson

#13. I alternated between attempting to make the easy look difficult and the difficult look easy, for this is the dual nature of men in the company of women.

Hugh Howey

#14. Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

Rachel Carson

#15. One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#16. Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

William Drummond

#17. I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do.

Masashi Kishimoto

#18. William Spiver said that the universe was expanding ... that means there will be more of everything! More cheese puffs, more jelly sandwiches, more words, more poems, more love. And more giant donuts ... maybe even gianter donuts. Is gianter a word? It should be.

Kate DiCamillo

#19. Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

Bill Gates