But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“he who would proceed in due course should love first one fair form, and then many, and learn the connexion of them;… — Plato Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
“I have no way to describe this, and I am positive that this is all just a horrible dream I have yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
“Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
“So impossible it is for a man who looks no further than the present world to fix himself long in a contemplation… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“What will all that chatter and hearsay count (will you even be able to remember it?) when the anaesthetic fog which we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
“Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“In this sense the Dionysian man resembles Hamlet: both have once looked truly into the essence of things, they have gained knowledge… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very… — Chantal Sutherland Copy Share Image
Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“lives. In some cultures, it’s even considered to be the start of passage into womanhood. My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it… — Kirsty Moseley Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
“You want us to bargain with a lizard?” “They’re not lizards, Father. They’re extraordinary creatures who were here long before any human… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
“How to be a Poet (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Living in Paris is "priceless," but it will cost you. It ain't cheap, yet it is one of the greatest bargains on… — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
“the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
“Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“According to the New Testament, the ‘good news’ is that a unique God-man has come to earth, revealed himself to the world,… — Linda Woodhead Copy Share Image
Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“If you are exuberant by your own nature, if life has become exuberant, activity is just a consequence. But if your life… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
