Famous Quotes & Sayings

Second-quarter GDP was revised upwards, representing the well-balanced nature of the recovery in Japan's economy,

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Robert Byrne

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'

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.

Alexander Hamilton

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adolf Hitler

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.

Adam Sedgwick

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

Adam Sedgwick

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.

Alison Lurie

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

Andrea Dworkin

I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.

John Sculley

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

James Garner

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Nalini Nadkarni

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

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.

Farrah Fawcett

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

William Shakespeare

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Harold Urey

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

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.

Aleister Crowley

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.