Jack London Quotes

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Jack London

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• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Without

• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Me

• The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Revolution

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Different
  • Nature

• I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

  

  Lana Turner
  • Live
  • Man
  • Without

• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Survive

• 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
  • Nature
  • Kind
  • Hand

• 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
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Lie
  • Camera
  • Cannot

• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Bad
  • Friend

• Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • World
  • Want
  • Security

• I've never played in Vegas. I've only been to the airport, but even the airport was exciting. Just flying in, looking out the window, you feel the pull of it, like it's some evil force pulling you in, like Mordor.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Evil
  • Flying
  • Vegas

• I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot