Your nature is the Buddha.
~By Bodhidharma ~
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.
~By Rick Derringer ~
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
~By O. Henry ~
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
~By David Seabury ~
I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.
~By Elizabeth Banks ~
If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.
~By Marc Racicot ~
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
~By Jane Austen ~
Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
~By Willard Scott ~
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
~By Walter Lang ~
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
~By J. P. Donleavy ~
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
~By Corliss Lamont ~
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
~By Ernest Shackleton ~
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
~By Berthe Morisot ~
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
~By John Burroughs ~
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
~By Bridget Riley ~
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
~By Georg Simmel ~
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game.
~By Stanley Shapiro ~
Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.
~By David Brin ~
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
~By Aristotle ~
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
~By Hippocrates ~
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
~By Alexander Pope ~
We're getting closer to our nature.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
~By Thomas Browne ~
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
~By Sidney Hook ~
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
~By Edouard Manet ~
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
~By Solomon Short ~
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
~By Edwin Booth ~
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
~By Edgar Z. Friedenberg ~
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
~By Graham Swift ~
The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.
~By Miranda Otto ~
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.
~By William Ames ~
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
~By Charles Eastman ~
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
~By Maya Lin ~
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
~By David Brainerd ~
You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
~By Bai Ling ~
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
~By Andrew Marvell ~
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
~By Franz Marc ~
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
~By John Muir ~
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
~By Harriet Martineau ~
I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
~By Zac Efron ~
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
~By Elizabeth Smart ~
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
~By William Bligh ~
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
~By Alan King ~
Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
~By William Petersen ~
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
~By Al Michaels ~
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
~By Charles D. Broad ~
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
~By Sai Baba ~
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
~By Murray Kempton ~
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
~By George Sand ~
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
~By Shelby Foote ~
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
~By Richard Owen ~
I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
~By Richard Ernst ~
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
~By Coco Chanel ~
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
~By Edward Hopper ~
I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
~By Donald Fagen ~
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
~By Oliver Stone ~
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
~By James Thomson ~
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?
~By Gregory Bateson ~
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
~By Robert Blair ~
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Culture means control over nature.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
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