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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Ralph Inge
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Henry Rollins
What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything
Blaise Pascal
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Pliny the Elder
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Jerome K. Jerome
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov
Man must not think that he is on a level either with the brutes or with the angels, nor must he be ignorant of both sides of his nature; but he must know both.
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Thomas Jefferson
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
Aldous Huxley
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
Gabrielle Union
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
A bird perched on a branch is never afraid of the branch breaking. Her trust is in her wings.
Anonymous
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
