Nature Quotes
- Page 56Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
Harold Ramis
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
Marlo Thomas
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Lewis Thomas
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
Montgomery Clift
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
Andrew Cuomo
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
David Attenborough
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Mo Udall
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. Henry
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Muhammad Iqbal
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
Brent Scowcroft
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton