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197 Our Nature quotes by 165 unique authors

If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of… — James Freeman Clarke
Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death. — Blaise Pascal
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that… — Sue Grafton
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is… — Marguerite Duras
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. — William Henry Harrison
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion… — Anthony Hopkins
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second. — Colin Mochrie
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. — Blaise Pascal
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — Blaise Pascal
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing. — Harold Ramis
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to… — Terry Riley
It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who… — Marco Rubio
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. — Salman Rushdie
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. — Herbert Spencer
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness… — Adam Weishaupt
Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death. — Blaise Pascal
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The… — Abraham Lincoln
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more… — Jane Austen
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized… — C.S. Lewis
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such… — Sigmund Freud
Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it. — Peter S. Beagle

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