D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

I'm full of contradictions.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

I personally feel that no human is a hero or a villain. All of us have our grey sides, and that is why grey interests me: because it's more human, more life-like.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

There is no accounting for human beings.

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living