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Nature
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Think
Denying
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
- A. E. Housman
Lines
Few
In nature there are few sharp lines.
- A. R. Ammons
Grateful
Though
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
- A. R. Ammons
Language
Other
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
- A. S. Byatt
May
Christ
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
- Aaron Siskind
Explain
Use
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
- Abdolkarim Soroush
Will
Ideologies
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
- Abdolkarim Soroush
World
Constant
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
- Abraham Cowley
Myself
Hidden
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
- Ada Lovelace
Particularly
Almost
Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
- Adam Garcia
Movie
Jaws
'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
- Adam Green
Doing
Planet
We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
- Adam Hamilton
Doing
Laws
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
- Adam Hamilton
Exercise
Feel
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
- Adam Smith
Lives
Man Lives
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
- Adam Weishaupt
Including
Species
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Neutral
Nature is neutral.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Truth
Only
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
- Adolf Loos
Think
Use
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
- Adolph Gottlieb
Rough
Before
We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
- Adoniram Judson
Die
Process
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
- Adoniram Judson
Flag
Free Speech
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
- Adrian Cronauer
Want
Go
I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?
- Adrianne Palicki
Stories
Might
I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.
- Adrienne Mayor
Feathers
Fine
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- Aesop
Part
Springs
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
- Agnes Repplier
Laws
Uniting
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
- Ahmed Zewail
Product
Everyone
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
- Ai Weiwei
Business
Back
I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.
- Aisha Tyler
Splendor
Almighty
It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
- Al Franken
Innovation
Everyone
The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
- Al Franken
Behind
Which
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
- Al Franken
Rooted
Naturally
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
- Al Gore
Career
Over
Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
- Al Michaels
Waste
Finally
I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.
- Alain de Botton
Been
Identify
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
- Alain de Botton
Doth
Beastly
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
- Alan Bleasdale
Name
Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.
- Alan Bullock
Concerned
Opposed
I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.
- Alan Dershowitz
Very
Contagion
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
- Alan Greenspan
Always
Regarded
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
- Alan Hovhaness
Manmade
Developed
Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.
- Alan Huffman
Marriage
Keeping
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
- Alan King
Boring
Another
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
- Alan Rudolph
Permanent
Which
I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.
- Alan Turing
Words
Other
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
- Alan Watts
Family
Fashion
The nature of fashion is family.
- Alber Elbaz
Will
Forced
Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
- Albert Brooks
Depth
Learned
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
Spring
Autumn
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus
Always
Been
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
- Albert Camus
Deep
Better
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Living
Embrace
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Still
One Percent
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Beyond
Reach
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Lost
Will
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer
Art
Adornment
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.
- Albrecht Durer
May
Them
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.
- Aldo Leopold
Only
Consistent
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
- Aldous Huxley
Equivalent
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
Natural
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.
- Aleister Crowley
Flowers
Big
I have a big passion for flowers and nature.
- Alessandro Michele
Been
Which
Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
- Alex Shoumatoff
TV
Sets
Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
- Alexander Ludwig
Explore
Learned
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
- Alexander Pope
Soul
Parts
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
- Alexander Pope
Art
Thee
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
- Alexander Pope
Law
Kindly
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
- Alexander Pope
Equal
Some
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
- Alexander Pope
Happy
Bound
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
- Alexander Pope
Laws
Hid
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
- Alexander Pope
She
Which
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
- Alexander Smith
Question
Placed
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
- Alexander the Great
James
Film Stars
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
- Alexander Walker
Gardening
Hands
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
- Alfred Austin
Gardening
Some
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
- Alfred Austin
Think
Denying
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
- Alfred Edward Housman
Half
Conceal
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hands
Reach
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth
Hiding
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
- Alfred Nobel
Speech
Itself
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- Alfred North Whitehead
New
Defending
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
- Alfred Rosenberg
Always
Which
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
- Algernon Sidney
Sex
Line
We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.
- Alice Dreger
Think
I Think
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
- Alice Walker
Very
Very Early Age
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
- Alice Walker
Color
Original
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.
- Alice Walker
Important
Most
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.
- Alison Gopnik
Want
Study
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
- Alison Gopnik
Must
Form
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
- Alvar Aalto
Committee
Which
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.
- Alvar Aalto
Ignorance
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- Ambrose Bierce
World
Occupying
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- Ambrose Bierce
Spring
Call
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
- Ambrose Bierce
Think
I Think
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
- Amity Gaige
Deserve
Very
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.
- Amor Towles
Waiting
Studio
I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.
- Amy Grant
Think
Very
I'm so comfortable on my snowboard that I don't have to think about it very much; it's somewhat second nature.
- Amy Purdy
Area
Mostly
I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.
- Amy Ray
Will
Ever
I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.
- Anastacia
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