Best Our Nature Lines
197 Our Nature quotes by 165 unique authors
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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
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Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.
— Blaise Pascal
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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
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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
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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
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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
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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
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We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
— Colin Mochrie
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
— Blaise Pascal
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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
— Blaise Pascal
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
— Harold Ramis
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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
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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
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
— Salman Rushdie
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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
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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
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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
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Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
— Blaise Pascal
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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