Nature Quotes (1673)

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control... view

By: Margaret J. Wheatley

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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano... view

By: James Whistler

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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority... view

By: E. B. White

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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined... view

By: Gilbert White

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The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment... view

By: Timothy White

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The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents... view

By: George Whitefield

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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... view

By: George Whitefield

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language... view

By: Alfred North Whitehead

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains... view

By: Walt Whitman

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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language... view

By: Benjamin Whorf

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Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him... view

By: Richard Widmark

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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them... view

By: Eugene Wigner

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It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them... view

By: Eugene Wigner

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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... view

By: Larry Wilcox

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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests... view

By: Thornton Wilder

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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them... view

By: Thornton Wilder

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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... view

By: Ricky Williams

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Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!".. view

By: Robin Williams

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String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect... view

By: Roy H. Williams

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Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game... view

By: Ted Williams

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

By: Tennessee Williams

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

By: E. O. Wilson

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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness... view

By: James Q. Wilson

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The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature... view

By: Kenneth G. Wilson

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The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it... view

By: Terri Windling

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This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured... view

By: Marie Windsor

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String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string... view

By: Edward Witten

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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle... view

By: Edward Witten

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If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways... view

By: Edward Witten

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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... view

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

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So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature... view

By: Stephen Wolfram

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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... view

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

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The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart... view

By: John Woo

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My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday.. view

By: Joanne Woodward

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art... view

By: Virginia Woolf

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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... view

By: Virginia Woolf

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity... view

By: William Wordsworth

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her... view

By: William Wordsworth

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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity... view

By: William Wordsworth

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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher... view

By: William Wordsworth

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