3 December 2020 Marco Rubio 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.’
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
3 December 2020 Thomas Frank 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.
3 December 2020 James Whitcomb Riley When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
3 December 2020 Georgia O'Keeffe I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Wilson Lynd There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando 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.
3 December 2020 Sue Grafton We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one’s sensations.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
3 December 2020 Anna Kendrick When I get recognized for ‘Twilight,’ it’s usually a teenage girl, and they’re usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.
3 December 2020 Rainer Maria Rilke Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
3 December 2020 Liam Neeson For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
3 December 2020 Henry Fielding 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!
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson 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.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
3 December 2020 Xun Zi 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.