3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
3 December 2020 Henri Matisse In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
3 December 2020 Margaret Cavendish A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mead Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
3 December 2020 Marguerite Moreau There’s an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren’t as important as we make them sometimes.
3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
3 December 2020 John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
3 December 2020 Taslima Nasrin Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
3 December 2020 Taylor Caldwell It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
3 December 2020 Eleanora Duse If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
3 December 2020 Geraldo Rivera Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
3 December 2020 Andrew Bernstein Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova I’ve been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
3 December 2020 Hans Christian Anderson Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
3 December 2020 Jack LaLanne You don’t have to call it God or Jesus. That’s religious humbug to a lot of people, but you’ve gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
3 December 2020 William Cowper Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can’t. It’s against the law of nature.
