Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel JohnsonTwo honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, 'What luck?'
Henry Jackson Van DykeBelief 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 GordonOnly that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Benedict SpinozaI 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 HawkingNature favours those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James LovelockWe talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence DayIf you want to make good photographs, a camera has to be second nature to you. [Criticising over-emphasis on technical elements of what you are doing]
Robert FarberReally I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia WoolfI don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom HanksIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles DarwinPity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Richard Brinsley SheridanEverything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
Mary SartonGreat art picks up where nature ends.
Marc ChagallWhat nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac SingerEvery so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry.
Peter DavisonPractical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel SmilesNothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
John BergerLater, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of 'second meaning' of the terms applied.
Wolfgang PauliI do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D RockefellerIt has not been in vain: the good, the enlightened of all ages and nations have found pleasure and consolation in the beauty of the rural earth. Prophets of old retired into the solitudes of nature to wait the inspiration of heaven. It was upon Mount Horeb that Elija experienced the mighty wind, the earthquake, and the fire; and, heard the small still voice. That voice is yet heard among the mountains!
Thomas ColeWe gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob BronowskiNature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar GracianWe can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
William JamesEvery investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes it ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
AthenaeusThe 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 KeplerHuman judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C ClarkeNature is wont to hide herself.
HeraclitusTo renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jean Jacques RousseauNothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus AureliusThe 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 ThoreauOut 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 Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Adam SmithTears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell BoveeNature does not make jumps
Carl LinnaeusNature made him, and then broke the mould (Orlando Furioso)
Ludovico AriostoAlthough our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von ClausewitzScenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John KeatsThe whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive
William Ralph IngeAction, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert BlairGod is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
Joyce CaryThere are all sorts of rumour in football all the time but that is the nature of the game at the top level.
Djibril CisseEverything that is right or natural pleasds for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
Thomas PaineGood painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it.
Miguel De CervantesThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensSkilled to pull wires he baffles nature's hope, who sure intended him to stretch a rope
James Russell LowellThose 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 JewellMan... hath by nature a power
.... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.
John LockeThe 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.
GalbraithA 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 Nietzsche
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