People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
“Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its… — Stefanie Brook Trout Copy Share Image
Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Moksha is indeed one’s own nature. When (one’s) knowledge-vision-conduct become enlightened (samayak,becomes right), that is called moksha.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which… — Shawn Smucker Copy Share Image
“Why do I love this place so much? Is it because here human nature hasn't time to disguise itself? Nobody here could… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
After all, the living book of God's creation lies open for all to see; it points constantly to the divine calling for… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
People do get hurt by jellyfish, as they do by sharks and spiders, and I have great sympathy for the anguish and… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras,… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
“I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new… — Jack Kroll Copy Share Image
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I'm a person who likes to hang out. I would never go on a blind date. That sounds like the most uncomfortable… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed,… — Chuck Palanhiuk Copy Share Image
There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Well, it is a good thing he died young. Most men don’t have the good sense to know when to quit this… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
