Action Quote by Henry David Thoreau

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

— Gertrude Atherton

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend…

— Jane Austen

“He'd been unable to discern whether this frantic bustle of hers was what it claimed to be - an ardent determination to live every…

— Lionel Shriver

“She had always been beautiful in his eyes, and admirable, too. He had worshipped her, in some ways, for her courage in adversity, for…

— Michael Moorcock

“Every human being has both sets of forces within him. One set clings to safety and defensiveness out of fear, tending to regress backward,…

— Abraham Harold Maslow

“Nature is only terrible or squalid to those who do not understand her, and when misunderstanding has upset her balance. She is imbued above…

— LORD NORTHBOURNE

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower is it in reaching maturity. Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Though they were very dissimilar in character, they also shared many tastes and appetites, and those they didn’t share they tolerated in each other…

— Colleen McCullough

“If we are to succeed in the great task before us we must adopt a humbler attitude towards the elementary things of life than…

— LORD NORTHBOURNE

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel