By : Spencer Abraham 0 Likes
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
By : William Temple
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
By : Edwin Booth
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.
By : Marquis de Sade
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
By : Paul Ricoeur
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
By : Edward Hopper
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
By : Victor Hugo
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
By : John Burroughs
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
By : Alphonse de Lamartine
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.
By : Hannah Arendt
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
By : James Thomson