Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
“Surely, if nature had intended us to be governed by our gonads, she wouldn’t have endowed us with an intellect.” — Michiel Heyns Copy Share Image
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Dolphins and sharks are natural enemies. Dolphins are like, "Quit eating us," and sharks are like, "Stop smiling all the time, you… — Dan Florence Copy Share Image
“And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Later, Hobbes will stress the notion central to Augustan thinking, the binary of passion and reason: The Passions that encline men to… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“So he left her, because in his heart he feared that she was a woman with a divided nature—and he did not… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“He had an idea all such blocks were probably fear-centered and basically hysterical in nature, as if the brain detected (or thought… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
“The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It's not a natural thing for a father to be a trainer of a kid in boxing because it involves sending a… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
Instead of getting periods once a month, can girls just get a text from mother nature saying 'You're not pregnant have a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people. — George Mason Copy Share Image
I think I'm curious by nature because I always want to learn, and I think you can learn from so many things… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive.… — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
“And, and—we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one… — Mia Ryan Copy Share Image
Any nature documentary or TV show will always make you start thinking differently about what surrounds us and how to take care… — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
I am still happy to be close to the city, [to be] connected to the intellectual source in Ferndorf. In this area,… — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
When Christ returns, and only then, will the angel's message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled: Peace on earth, goodwill toward men. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image