There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Blushing manifests the exposure, the unexpectedness, the involuntary nature of shame. In On Shame and the Search for Identity Helen Lynd writes,… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness?… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news;… — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“O, were I loved as I desire to be! What is there in the great sphere of the earth, Or range of… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“For if we see that the sun, in sending forth its rays upon the earth, to generate, cherish, and invigorate its offspring,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“We do not know the future, but we are creating it now. How we align the vision we have for a livable… — Helen Drayton Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To worship the Lord is to stand valiantly in the cause of truth and righteousness, to let our influence for good be… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
“Tim wants to know what on earth it is all about and why on earth Grace has come all the way to… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I could not give up either of these worlds, neither the book I am holding nor the gleaming forest, though I have… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The machinery of the sky that confounds us on earth with endless transformations of clouds in the light of dawn does not… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
“How is it that people look at the same city and see such very different places? The answer lies in history, or,… — Matthew Klingle Copy Share Image
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief that if Providence should see fit to remove him, it… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It… — Cunningham Geikie Copy Share Image
“One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Take the pleasure I'm giving you as a vow, pet. If you leave me, I will hunt you to the ends of… — Shayla Black Copy Share Image
“I wish you to recollect that the greatest conquerors are not always the greatest kings. The nations of the earth have often… — Audrey Truschke Copy Share Image
“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point of destructiveness.… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town in the woods of Estonia, and there was not much else around me besides nature.… — Kerli Copy Share Image
The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't… — Jake Garn Copy Share Image
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by… — Mikhail Lomonosov Copy Share Image
I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form…the cosmic… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Kant offered his students the world-wisdom (Weltweisheit)6 necessary for becoming a good world citizen in such a way that “elegance and appreciation… — Patrick Frierson Copy Share Image