Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Love can end. It isn’t permanent by nature, whatever the weavers of fairy tales want to suggest. Forever takes hard work, and… — Christine Amsden Copy Share Image
Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as… — Valerius Geist Copy Share Image
Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of… — Enid Lyons Copy Share Image
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The creator of stars, heaven and earth surpassed himself when he also created pain. Lips like rubies, delicious-smelling hair, blooming flowers, how… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic… — John Banville Copy Share Image
People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death… — Clyde Butcher Copy Share Image
For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in… — Ashton Carter Copy Share Image
“The coming of the kingdom brings deliverance, not only for the soul, but also for the body. It embraces nothing less than… — Herman Ridderbos Copy Share Image
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.” — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered if some of the misfortunes in our lives are payment for the wages of our sins while we… — Kumbirai Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes… — Paul Dourish Copy Share Image
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
You just have to try to adapt and survive as a player and continue to improve and we all understand that's the… — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
“a kind of story interested in using the language of dreams and fragments, vague impressions, snatches of scientific discourse, in order to… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of merit karma (punya)? It will be spent. There may be a thousand ton of ice, but what… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The crowd is bobbing round him and he is part of it, the free people of the earth have taken him among… — John Le Carre Copy Share Image
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the creatures you love and the things you love and the life you love, what on earth could… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares… — Robert Graham Copy Share Image
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image