Nature Quotes
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'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
Elizabeth Kenny
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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
Napoleon Hill
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
Zadie Smith
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Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow. Art should melt into and even merge with nature itself. This is obviously contrary to painting and sculpture based on nature. By so doing, art will rid itself more and more of self-centredness, virtuosity and absurdity.
Jean Arp
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The laws of certain states …give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property…. But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty-and when the captor in war …thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.
Alexander Hamilton
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People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.
James Lafferty
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In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.
Christien Meindertsma
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
Haley Bennett
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
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On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
John Hoeven
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The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.
James Monroe
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I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
Christina Aguilera
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When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.
Mark Hanna
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde
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I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.
Penelope Cruz
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And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.
Socrates
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Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite...to the attainment of the ends of such power.
Alexander Hamilton
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
Gary Chapman