3 December 2020 Francis Bacon The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
3 December 2020 Pam Brown For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Bronte If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
3 December 2020 Ansel Adams To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
3 December 2020 Bodhidharma People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
3 December 2020 Langston Hughes Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
3 December 2020 Voltaire What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas French is a foreign language, but I’ve been speaking it since I was 18 so it’s second nature to me.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant It’s human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That’s just so normal.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
3 December 2020 Samuel Richardson Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley 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.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.
3 December 2020 Anthony Hopkins We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.
