977 private quotes tagged nature

“Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.”— Henry Norris Russell

“While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.”— Tony Campolo

“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.”— Hugh Hefner

“The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.”— Dennis Prager

“Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.”— George Whitefield

“Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.”— Larry Wilcox

“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.”— Edward Gibbon

“Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.”— Drew Barrymore

“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”— Wole Soyinka

“The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.”— Margaret J. Wheatley

“Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.”— William Law

“Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.”— Thomas Frank

“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”— Richard Le Gallienne

“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.”— James Thurber

“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”— Sue Grafton

“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.”— Toni Morrison

“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”— Annie Leibovitz

“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.”— Cyril Connolly

“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”— Virginia Woolf

“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”— Christopher Lasch

“Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.”— Conor Cruise O'Brien

“Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.”— David Attenborough

“Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?”— Albert J. Nock