3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature’s part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
3 December 2020 Iris Murdoch People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
3 December 2020 John Updike Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
3 December 2020 Niels Bohr It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
3 December 2020 Adam Weishaupt When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
3 December 2020 Edward Thorndike Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
3 December 2020 Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
3 December 2020 Jane Smiley There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
3 December 2020 Hamlin Garland Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.
3 December 2020 John Garamendi Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn’t work.
3 December 2020 David Duchovny Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
3 December 2020 Cass Sunstein I think it’s a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you’ll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
3 December 2020 Lou Holtz A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
3 December 2020 George MacDonald It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
3 December 2020 Jerome K. Jerome I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
3 December 2020 Wole Soyinka There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
3 December 2020 Carl Reiner A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
