3 December 2020 Lee Atwater My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
3 December 2020 Walt Disney All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
3 December 2020 John Keats There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
3 December 2020 Dale Carnegie One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
3 December 2020 James Allen The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
3 December 2020 Garrison Keillor Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
3 December 2020 John Muir Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
3 December 2020 Xun Zi Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
3 December 2020 Zane Grey Love of man for woman – love of woman for man. That’s the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette When I’m off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It’s a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything – going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
3 December 2020 Andy Goldsworthy Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There’s something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
3 December 2020 Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you’re playing a tender love story that’s set in a coffee shop or whether you’re in ‘The Avengers,’ which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
3 December 2020 Jacob Bronowski Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.