Nature Quotes
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When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.
Alan Ruck
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Charles V
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I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
James F. Cooper
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To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.
Mary Frann
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One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
Pierre Bonnard
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And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.
Andre Braugher
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
William Cullen Bryant
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I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.
Pablo Casals
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Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.
Frank Drake
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Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
Carl Linnaeus
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Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it.
Kam Williams
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It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.
Frank Peretti
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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Marquis de Sade
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Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
Frederick Soddy
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Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.
H. E. Davey
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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.
Marcus Aurelius
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'The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.'
Brandon Sanderson
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
Plato