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Players are not going to say sorry because, by their nature, they believe in themselves. I think they are quite arrogant people. They will blame everybody but themselves
David Sullivan

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
Evan Esar

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Sir Thomas Aquinas

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco

Don't ever give up. That's what I want the next generation to understand. Everything doesn't come up all roses all the time. That is the nature of this athletics game
Tasha Danvers

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
Blaise Pascal

Finally he paid the debt of nature (The New Chronicles of England and France)
Robert Fabyan

As 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 Chesnutt

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
Jean Baudrillard

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Orison Swett Marden

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech
Quintilian

A 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 Lamb

Everything that is right or natural pleasds for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
Thomas Paine

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
Brendan Francis Behan

All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
Samuel Pepys

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E B White

Reflect 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 Pascal

Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
Henry Miller

Skilled to pull wires he baffles nature's hope, who sure intended him to stretch a rope
James Russell Lowell

We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
Felicia Hemans

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Family, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-John

Everything 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 Sarton

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 Geller

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)
John Locke

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J G Ballard

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
Ovid

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
Marcel Proust

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.
Thomas Huxley

I 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 Rockefeller

From the level of pragmatic, everyday knowledge to modern natural science, the knowledge of nature derives from man's primary coming to grips with nature; at the same time it reacts back upon the system of social labour and stimulates its development.
Jurgen Habermas

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
David Hume

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them - On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly - After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr

If you don't think there is a need for institutions like the UN, then you don't understand the nature of the world too well.
Sam Farr

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert Holland

I’m a sacred cow. [on her irreplaceable nature on Blind Date, now de-commissioned]
Cilla Black

Citrus labels went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy: apricot, purple, cobalt blue, sea green, cinnamon, cinnabar, mauve, yellow, orange.
Kevin Starr

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
Joan Rivers

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant



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