A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

All art is but imitation of nature.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

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

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Custom is second nature.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

For greed all nature is too little.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Hidden nature is secret God.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

I am two with nature.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

I like my home and I like the nature.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

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 still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

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

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Land really is the best art.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

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.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

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

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

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.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

My nature just changes.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Nature can do more than physicians.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Nature hates calculators.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Nature is neutral.

Nature is not human hearted.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Nature is perfect.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Nature is the art of God.

Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.