A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought
Albert EinsteinThat which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
Sarah CaldwellI love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord ByronGeneral principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
William HazlittThere are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls (Jubilate Agno)
Christopher SmartIt has degenerated into a physical nature, especially on recent occasions where I have been spat upon. [On abuse suffered at the hands of Scotland fans]
Berti VogtsArt may imitate wild nature; less often does it dare to place itself in the midst of it, and when it does, it may come out second best. [Profound indeed]
John HartA beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis NizerI am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond TutuIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman MelvilleNature itself may be heartless and free of desires, but amongst the creatures it has thrown up are some which are not heartless, and not free of desires. [Ruling Passions]
Simon BlackburnNature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QuintilianThe salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
GalbraithNature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William CurtisTo the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAlthough to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. [the famous Euler that set the foundation for mathematics]
Leonhard EulerNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandBut on and up, where Nature's heart
Beats strong amid the hills.
Richard Monckton MilnesIdeas are the vegetation of the mental world. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another.
Macneile DixonThere is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Benito MussoliniAction, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert BlairEvery investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes it ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
AthenaeusAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H G WellsWe should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.
Shirley FranklinMan does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and moulded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.
Wilford CrossConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous HuxleyBeauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John MiltonNature intended women to be our slaves... THey are our property... They belong to us, just as a tree that bears fruit belongs to a gardener.
Napoleon BonaparteEvery citizen is king under a citizen king [ignoring that because of human nature being what it is, in practice that would never be true]
Charles FavartA poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
Charles LambBeauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheMemory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Jessamyn WestEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen HawkingGuys go off to excuse themselves, nature calls and that's how it goes
Duncan FletcherA refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one
Friedrich NietzscheThe mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold NiebuhrIf Everton finish in a Champions League place, they'll play in the Champions League [astonishingly piercing insight there from Bright by name but ... nature?]
Mark BrightIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice WalkerFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother
Edward Bulwer-LyttonMy father said "If somebody hits you, then you hit them back harder." That's the nature of the black family.
Bobby BrownAll things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Sir Thomas BrowneNature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E StevensonCreativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric HofferNature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelArt is only Nature operating with the aid of the instruments she has made.
Paul HenriCamping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
Dave BarryThose decisions cost us three points and possibly £50m. Dowd by name, Dowd by nature....the only thing consistent about these fellas is their inconsistency.
Paul Jewell
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