Aristotle Quotes
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Aristotle
Quotes to Explore
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
Saint Bernard
I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
Rachael Taylor
One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
There as here, passions are the motive of all action, but they are livelier, more ardent, or merely simpler and purer, thereby assuming a totally different character. All the first movements of nature are good and right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
Viktor E. Frankl
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
Orhan Pamuk
I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
Mary Steenburgen
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Aristotle