977 private quotes tagged nature

“What is art? Nature concentrated.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.” — Donna Leon

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“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.” — Elvis Presley

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“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.” — Virginia Woolf

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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” — George Santayana

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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.” — Joseph Conrad

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“All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.” — Frances Wright

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“I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!” — Zac Efron

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“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.” — William Hazlitt

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“Nature is the art of God.” — Dante Alighieri

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“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.” — Bernard Meltzer

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“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” — Patrick Henry

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“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.” — George MacDonald

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“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.” — Peter Ustinov

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“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” — Moliere

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“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.” — Octavio Paz

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“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.” — John Milton

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“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.” — Paul Getty

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“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” — George Washington Carver

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“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.” — Sai Baba

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“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” — George Washington Carver

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