Nature Quotes
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It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
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A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
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True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.
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Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.
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That’s the nature of the beast. We are what we are.
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I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.
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We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives.
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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.
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As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
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According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
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A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
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The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
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The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
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Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. John Kennedy had wit, and so did Lincoln, who also had abundant humor; Reagan was mostly humor.
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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
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Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.
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It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
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There is no necessary connection between warfare and human nature. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
