Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. — Martin Bormann Copy Share Image
Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the… — Rebecca De Mornay Copy Share Image
When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it… — John Heider Copy Share Image
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I don't think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and… — Kohei Uchimura Copy Share Image
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
