Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't take these things lightly. I don't make allegations of this nature unless there is something to suggest that something smells.

Gabriel Basso

I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

John Eccles

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

Herbert Read

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

Evan Esar

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

Eugene Delacroix

The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

Eugene Delacroix

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Ingrid Newkirk

[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.

Isaac Watts

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Isaac Newton

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Isaac Newton

Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

Isaac Newton

All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.

Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

I am an optimist by nature. But I have to admit, it's getting kind of scary.

Ezra Taft Benson

Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.

Jon Daniels

By the nature of his injury, it's going to be tough to get him stretched out as a starter.

Georges Simenon

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Reggie Bush

I'm not too disappointed. It is the nature of the beast.

Indira Gandhi

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

I want to be there with the girls, but nature called.

They were the kind and nature of expenditures that have been permitted in the past and were permitted under her contract.

Ron Rivera

It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out.

It's the nature of the business, I guess.

John Lasseter

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Lois Lowry

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Mao Zedong

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

John Fowles

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

John Fowles

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

Paolo Bacigalupi

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

Paracelsus

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Paracelsus

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature can be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature will become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her in her inner light.