977 private quotes tagged nature

“There is no forgiveness in nature.” — Ugo Betti

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“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.” — Joseph Butler

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“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.” — Marquis de Sade

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“You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.” — Nathan Fillion

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“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.” — Noam Chomsky

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“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.” — Don DeLillo

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“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.” — Tertullian

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“Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.” — Stephen King

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“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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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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“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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“The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.” — Pat Buckley

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“Your nature is the Buddha.” — Bodhidharma

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“We must return to nature and nature's god.” — Luther Burbank

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“It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.” — Adam Weishaupt

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“Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” — John Updike

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“I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.” — Isabel Allende

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“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.” — Bob Dylan

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