FastSaying

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.


Sōseki Natsume

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It...
AMIT RAY We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.
BLAKE MYCOSKIE We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - w...
EDWARD JENNER You are the ultimate freedom, peace and bliss - free from the trace of desire, fear and doubts.
AMIT RAY As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human ...
STOCKWELL DAY I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I...
ANKITA SINGHAL I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
DANA PERINO I got that same feeling ... the same kind of energy that we created with the original Return to Fore...
AIRTO MOREIRA 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.
MAYA ANGELOU I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
DAVID WHYTE [Patients] were being regarded more for the intellectual challenges they posed than being seen as hu...
DENNIS NOVACK Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) is to continue believing you are someone that you re...
DADA BHAGWAN Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and ...
, THE HUMAN FACE, 2001 More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to obs...
FLULA BORG What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including ...
AMISHA PATEL It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that disti...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but...
MAYA ANGELOU We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT

More Sōseki Natsume

It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least on...
SōSEKI NATSUME Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—pa...
SōSEKI NATSUME That Seigo could go into geisha houses, accept luncheon invitations, drop in at the Club, see people...
SōSEKI NATSUME I realized that it was not Ko-san, now safely ditched for ever, but Ko-san's mother who stood in nee...
SōSEKI NATSUME Soy un gato, un ser extremadamente sensible a los más sutiles cambios en la mente o el alma del mun...
SōSEKI NATSUME He had always been a middle-of-the-road sort. He had never submitted word for word to anyone's comma...
SōSEKI NATSUME My love for her was close to piety. You may think it strange that I should use this word, with its r...
SōSEKI NATSUME Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocr...
SōSEKI NATSUME I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I fe...
SōSEKI NATSUME Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.
SōSEKI NATSUME I am a lonely man," he said again that evening. "And is it not possible that you are also a lonely p...
SōSEKI NATSUME Like the first whiff of burning incense, or like the taste of one's first cup of saké, there is in ...
SōSEKI NATSUME I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which exp...
SōSEKI NATSUME How deep, how recondite this seeming petty heart,
In whose recesses right and wrong lie dimmed ...
SōSEKI NATSUME That's a good point," Professor Hirota said. "But there is one thing we ought to keep in mind in the...
SōSEKI NATSUME Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of ...
SōSEKI NATSUME Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bi...
SōSEKI NATSUME I often laughed, and you often gave me a dissatisfied look, till you pressed me to unfold my past be...
NATSUME SōSEKI All you do is think. Because all you do is think, you've constructed two separate worlds—one insid...
NATSUME SōSEKI If he let one day pass without glancing at a single page, habit led him to feel a vague sense of dec...
NATSUME SōSEKI Sometimes when I can no longer endure the strain, I beg him to tell me what is wrong with me and hel...
NATSUME SōSEKI It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create ...
NATSUME SōSEKI