977 private quotes tagged nature

“The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.” — Marguerite Moreau

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“Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” — Juvenal

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“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.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.” — Michael J. Fox

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“We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.” — Paul Cezanne

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“The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.” — Pink

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“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.” — Auguste Rodin

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“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.” — Jerry Garcia

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“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“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.” — Eleanora Duse

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“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.” — Paul Cezanne

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“The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.” — Mick Jagger

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“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.” — Michael J. Fox

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“Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“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.” — Marquis de Sade

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“I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.” — Pat Robertson

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