977 private quotes tagged nature

“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.” — Charlotte Bronte

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“The skull is nature's sculpture.” — David Bailey

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“To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.” — James Buchan

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“If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.” — Alex Trebek

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“For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.” — Patricia Highsmith

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“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” — Edvard Munch

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“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.” — Michael Pollan

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“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.” — Louis Nizer

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“Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.” — Corin Nemec

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“I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.” — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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“Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.” — Zane Grey

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“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.” — Garry Kasparov

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“I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.” — Anna Kendrick

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“I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.” — Gabrielle Union

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“Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.” — Xun Zi

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“I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.” — Yvon Chouinard

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“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.” — Henri Poincare

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“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.” — Wole Soyinka

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“There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.” — Arthur Erickson

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“Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.” — Xun Zi

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“Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and s----h from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.” — Xun Zi

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“When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.” — Anna Kendrick

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“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.” — Abdolkarim Soroush

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“Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.” — Jack Herer

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