I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
~By John Milton ~
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
~By Beatrice Potter Webb ~
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
~By Xun Zi ~
There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.
~By David Millar ~
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
~By Robert Fortune ~
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.
~By Wilford O. Cross ~
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
~By Alex Grey ~
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
~By John Keats ~
Water is the driving force of all nature.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
~By Joseph Addison ~
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
~By Murray Kempton ~
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
~By Edith Hamilton ~
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 ~
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
~By Richard Thompson ~
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
~By Louise Berliawsky Nevelson ~
Gossip is nature's telephone.
~By Sholom Aleichem ~
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
~By Leroy Chiao ~
I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
~By Ovid ~
Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
~By Adam Garcia ~
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
~By Michael Faraday ~
Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.
~By Paul Nurse ~
Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
~By Lord Acton ~
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
~By William Wordsworth ~
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
~By Alex Trebek ~
You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
In nature there are few sharp lines.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
~By Walther Bothe ~
Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
~By George Whitefield ~
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
~By Mick Jagger ~
Nature never breaks her own laws.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
~By Alexander Pope ~
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
~By Thomas Mellon ~
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
~By Robert Crippen ~
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
~By Orson Pratt ~
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
~By J. G. Ballard ~
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
~By Sol Hurok ~
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
~By Saint Augustine ~
We're getting closer to our nature.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
~By William Bernbach ~
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Art is the signature of civilizations.
~By Beverly Sills ~
When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!
~By Amy Adams ~
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
~By Pat Buckley ~
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
~By John Paul Jones ~
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
~By Joseph Addison ~
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
~By Beck ~
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
~By Thomas Campbell ~
If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.
~By George Crook ~
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
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 ~
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
~By J. G. Holland ~
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
~By Peter D. Mitchell ~
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
~By Victor Cousin ~
By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
~By Al Franken ~
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
~By Plato ~
It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
~By Bjork ~
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