Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn MonroeHuman nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
MenciusAirplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al GoreAs man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Charles ChesnuttWhatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney SmithAll art is an imitation of nature.
SenecaOut with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia I am not a miracle worker, but I have done things of this nature before. It's 95 per cent down to the team and the players themselves to win. There is a five per cent gap that the fans can close to bring success.
Uri GellerTo the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo EmersonExcept the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.
Sir Henry MaineThe Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
Chaka FattahFor movie "Human Nature": "I made a pubic wig."
Patricia ArquetteBelief in God is a very personal thing and for a lot of people, I think, their spiritual side and nature evolves and changes during the course of their lives.
Jeff GordonIt 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 VogtsThose 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 JewellSuch is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineWomen, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Gary KasparovThe art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied
Francois De Salignac FenelonIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice WalkerReflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
Blaise PascalNature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
Blaise PascalLove, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah ArendtThe diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
Johannes KeplerNature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
EpictetusThe system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E F SchumacherHistory, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought
Thomas CarlyleThat's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel De CervantesMy father said "If somebody hits you, then you hit them back harder." That's the nature of the black family.
Bobby BrownThis only is hidden from people - the true nature of how they appear to be to other people and not just themselves.
GermanicusI 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?
James ThomsonThe finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Henry David ThoreauI am proud to have participated in a show of this nature and I will be bringing a large cheque to the charity of my choice. [on I'm A Celebrity]
Uri GellerPoetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas HardyNature makes woman to be won and men to win.
George William CurtisI’m a sacred cow. [on her irreplaceable nature on Blind Date, now de-commissioned]
Cilla BlackBy nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Sir Thomas AquinasAction, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert BlairA widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J G Ballard...I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature.
- The Bell Jar
Sylvia PlathWhen Cicero consulted the oracle at Delphos, concerning what course of studies he should pursue, the answer was 'Follow Nature.'
John BeaumontThe courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward GibbonMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C S LewisSuit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
Joan RiversA desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TacitusI believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd WrightThat 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 CaldwellHow selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]
Adam SmithNature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QuintilianIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman MelvilleFinally he paid the debt of nature (The New Chronicles of England and France)
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