Nature Quotes (1673)

I am two with nature... view

By: Woody Allen

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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic... view

By: Isabel Allende

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It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes... view

By: Svetlana Alliluyeva

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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it... view

By: Margery Allingham

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Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government... view

By: Sidney Altman

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The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature... view

By: William Ames

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In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature... view

By: William Ames

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For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor... view

By: William Ames

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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... view

By: William Ames

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

By: Henri Frederic Amiel

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In nature there are few sharp lines... view

By: A. R. Ammons

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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... view

By: A. R. Ammons

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Comedy is second nature for me... view

By: Anthony Anderson

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All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides... view

By: Judith Anderson

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I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow... view

By: Marian Anderson

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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath... view

By: Marian Anderson

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Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around... view

By: Richard Dean Anderson

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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan... view

By: Tadao Ando

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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step... view

By: Kofi Annan

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You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand... view

By: Princess Anne

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When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them... view

By: Michelangelo Antonioni

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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature... view

By: Guillaume Apollinaire

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony... view

By: Guillaume Apollinaire

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection... view

By: Guillaume Apollinaire

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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient... view

By: Thomas Aquinas

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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex.. view

By: Thomas Aquinas

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

By: Thomas Aquinas

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later... view

By: Louis Aragon

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Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away... view

By: Archilochus

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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... view

By: Hannah Arendt

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

By: Hannah Arendt

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Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground... view

By: Ludovico Ariosto

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Nature made him, and then broke the mold... view

By: Ludovico Ariosto

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more... view

By: Aristotle

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit... view

By: Aristotle

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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... view

By: Aristotle

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

By: Aristotle

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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... view

By: Aristotle

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All men by nature desire knowledge... view

By: Aristotle

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Man is by nature a political animal... view

By: Aristotle

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