A Quote by Nadine Gordimer

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Nadine Gordimer

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Nadine Gordimer
South African - Writer
Born: November 20, 1923

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

Daisaku Ikeda

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

Vladimir Lenin

The nature of football can bring out the best in people, but it can also bring out the worst in people.

Chris Hughton

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Sophia Bush

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

Richard Engel

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best. And there are remarkably rare ones, who just bring out the most of everything that even you don't know that you have.

Cedi Osman

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.

Karen Marie Moning

The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.

George W. Bush

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

Lisa Marie Presley

Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.

Hamza Yusuf

I think hard times either bring out the best in you or the worst, and I think I've luckily managed to bring out all the positives in myself.

Tulisa

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

David Mitchell

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.