Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

Horace

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Horace

Nature is harmony in discord.

Hannah Arendt

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

George Berkeley

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

George Berkeley

Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.

George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

George Bernard Shaw

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

Galileo Galilei

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.

Galileo Galilei

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

Galileo Galilei

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Manolo Blahnik

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

Joe Sakic

It was tougher seeing Foote and Pete go because I was with them for so long, ... I've had a lot of friends in Quebec and a lot of friends here (in Colorado) that got traded away or retired. That's just the nature of sports.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

John Milton

As an engineer, I feel it's at a point we should be concerned, ... We're taking risks already. I don't like relying on nature not to do something.

The wonderful thing about nature is its resilience,

Larry Johnson

We just started our investigation, ... The SBI is here now, and it is suspicious in nature.

I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.

When allegations of such a serious nature have been made, they need to be probed. If nothing comes out, then that will be the end of it. We are only trying to find out the truth.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

Grant Hill

Even with medicine, you can do everything right and something can happen. That's just the nature of it.

Jason Bay

The neat thing about this tournament is the nature of it, and how quick it is. A nice win here, you step it up in one game, and all of a sudden people take note, not just of the team but the players on it.

The nature of the store, it's very small. We want a one-on-one relationship with our customers.

Robert Graham

The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.

I just want the world to give nature the opportunity to survive.

M. Night Shyamalan

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

None of the arguments presented were of a serious nature and do not stand up to criticism.

In the end, a weather problem is what stopped us, but that is the nature of ballooning.

C. Everett Koop

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.