... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the… — Seung Sahn Copy Share Image
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
“tea tree oil—a natural oil derived from a tree, as mosquitos hate the smell and are completing repelled. Chances are they will… — Ronald Williams Copy Share Image
If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist;… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lír demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each in full flood and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“There are certain things which are human nature," he asserted with an owl-like look, "which always have been and always will be,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“but love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of… — edward abbey Copy Share Image
Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful and redeeming about the humans. Although we, and indeed all magical creatures, always follow our nature, humans can… — Joseph Barone Copy Share Image
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“allies are essential; that commitments are so sacred that by nature they should be rare; and that grandstanding rarely gets anything done.” — Alice Schroeder Copy Share Image
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“[...] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems… — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
“In threatening times like these, what good is a peace that demands a controlled environment? We need a peace of heart and… — George Foster Copy Share Image
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of… — Wellington Mara Copy Share Image
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“A snowfall softens all the hard noises and hard corners. It's a natural liar. I saw the sky sprinkle down a hundred,… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all… — Jon Gnarr Copy Share Image
I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“No matter how gorgeous the person is, we have to keep our feet on the ground and be down-to-earth in order to… — Ingrid Holm-Garibay Copy Share Image
If we started thinking, 'Why's this funny?' we might start incorporating rules into it. I'd be suspicious that it would change the… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Men: If you have a girl that loves you and who will always be there for you, please dont lose her cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation,… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image