3 December 2020 William Lyon Phelps Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
3 December 2020 Quintilian The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It’s the nature of the process.
3 December 2020 Archibald Alexander Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
3 December 2020 Ellsworth Huntington We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.
3 December 2020 Robert Bork Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man’s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
3 December 2020 Albert J. Nock Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
3 December 2020 Plato All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
3 December 2020 Tim Burton When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
3 December 2020 John Coltrane All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
3 December 2020 Isabel Allende I’m aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
3 December 2020 John Adams All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
3 December 2020 Willem de Kooning The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
3 December 2020 David Hume Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
