H. G. Wells Quotes
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.H. G. Wells
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
Nathaniel Branden -
Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
Harold Urey -
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
Jack Herer -
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero -
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
Carla Gugino -
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
Candace Bushnell -
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
Harold Ramis -
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells -
I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
Karl Pilkington -
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Paracelsus
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
Tariq Ali -
I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
Harold Hamm -
God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
Pat Robertson -
Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
Q-Tip
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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
David Hume -
I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.
Lloyd Blankfein -
I find both yoga and pilates awesome at calming my mind and strengthening my body.
Ella Woodward -
I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
H. G. Wells