Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oona Chaplin

I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.

Geoffrey West

Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Algernon Sidney

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

Beeban Kidron

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

Alexander Smith

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

We'd like to know where it was seen, who they saw in it, anything of that nature.

Aberjhani

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Adam Weishaupt

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Adam Smith

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Abraham Cowley

Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But nothing is all black in nature.

Farrah Fawcett

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

Nas

I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

Conrad Burns

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Theo James

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

Stephen Covey

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Cyril Connolly

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Cyril Connolly

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Cormac McCarthy

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Conan O'Brien

In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.

E. V. Lucas

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

Carl Honore

We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

Gerry Harvey

That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.

Franz Kline

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

Eugene Wigner

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Ellsworth Kelly

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Fairuza Balk

I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.

Eduardo Galeano

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.