Nature Quotes

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

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.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

Man is by nature a political animal.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.