"We are perverse creatures and never satisfied." — Nan Fairbrother
"We are perverse creatures and never satisfied."
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Nan Fairbrother
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12 Quotes by Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrother has 12 quotes on this site.
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden,…
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a…
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that…
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There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in…
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A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The…
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Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole…
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It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the…
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest…
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Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own…
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we…
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its…
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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God's first creature, which was light.
— Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
— Honore de Balzac
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