William Wordsworth Quotes
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Quotes to Explore
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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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.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
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There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.
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I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I've done, and that's a great conversation to have. That's what we're doing it for.
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I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did it.
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
