“Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.”
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“"We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1"". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need."”
“I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.”
“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.”
“Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.”
“The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.”
“Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.”
“The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.”
“It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.”
“You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.”
“Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.”
“The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.”
“The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.”
“We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.”
“Nature is a petrified magic city.”
“It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.”
“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.”
“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.”
“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
“One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.”
“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”
“Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.”
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”