H. W. Brands Quotes

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

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• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Nature
  • New Life

• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • View
  • Contrast

• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  

  Ovid
  • She
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Know

• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nature
  • Price
  • Cheated

• It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • May
  • Nature
  • Better

• Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • People
  • Nature
  • Technology

• Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Age

• In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Nature
  • Hope

• Freud says, 'Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.' Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Taken
  • Boy

• I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Evil

• Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Nature
  • Law

• We didn’t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we weren’t at all sure whether we wouldn’t drop dead or something of that nature.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Nature

• There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Nature

• 'And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Moral

• Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we're finding it easier to live as practical atheists.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

  

  Nagai Sōkichi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Nature

• Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Disease

• A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • War
  • Death
  • Law

• One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Stop

• The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Nature
  • Revolutions