Ivan Turgenev Quotes
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
Ivan Turgenev
Quotes to Explore
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
Saint Basil
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
Victoria Pendleton
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
Nathan Outteridge
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
Zac Goldsmith
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
Kara Swisher
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Hans Hofmann
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
Pat Conroy
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
Daisaku Ikeda
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How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.
John Eccles
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I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.
Taron Egerton
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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda. There is sacrifice in this country.
Dennis Hastert
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.
Zadie Smith
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
Ivan Turgenev
