“Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”
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“If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.”
“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.”
“I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.”
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.”
“Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.”
“Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.”
“In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.”
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
“I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.”
“The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.”
“What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.”
“It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.”
“I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.”
“Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.”
“I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.”
“A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!”
“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.”
“I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.”
“No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.”
“I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.”
“The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.”
“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.”