“De Tocqueville's thrust is that it's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In many cruise ships, there are hundreds of workers from some of the poorest countries on earth who are paid minute amounts… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
“Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what’s natural. Whatever I’ve enjoyed in these vast fields I’ve enjoyed because I don’t live… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Explaining families and institutions in terms of the nature of their parts, I began to think, was like trying to reduce chemistry… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In 2015, the writer Alex Blank Millard engaged in her own gender-swap experiment to highlight the misogynist nature of online abuse. Sick… — Emma A. Jane Copy Share Image
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We… — Gerald of Wales Copy Share Image
“Renunciation, The Natural Daughter demonstrates, is the act of those who believe that their happiness is dependent on a power beyond their… — Nicholas Boyle Copy Share Image
“Theologians could not even agree about the nature of their gods. These personages ranged from "blue touch-paper gods" who started everything and… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
Love is one of the natural seeds that needs care and respect. People always get confused end up having the questions about… — Refilwe Fifi Mahlangu Copy Share Image
“The year was 1922, and the Curies had transformed plain earth into something rare and unimagined. A secret of the universe has… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been… — Abba Hillel Silver Copy Share Image
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get… — Murray Bartlett Copy Share Image
Love has the most powerful influence to your happiness. You can be in love and be the happiest person, and you can… — London Mond Copy Share Image
It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug… — Jonathan Adler Copy Share Image
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“These hands are yours. You can use them for good, or for evil. And no amount of nature, biology, or DNA determines… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image