Alex Epstein Quotes
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson -
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi -
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal -
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Barney Oliver -
I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
Floyd Skloot -
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Hans Hofmann
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I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.
Fairuza Balk -
I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
Barbara Mandrell -
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman -
In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
I. M. Pei -
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
E. Stanley Jones
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman -
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving -
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman -
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
Xun Kuang -
Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen -; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.
Edgar Allan Poe -
In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.
Ferdinand Foch
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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 -
I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
Albert Einstein -
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
Walter Dean Myers -
God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.
F. F. Bruce Quotes -
Every performer should learn a little bit of everything.
Debbie Reynolds -
Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature.
Alex Epstein