Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

My nature just changes.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

Nature abhors annihilation.

I've always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too far away from huge rhododendron estates and azalea estates, and when they're in bloom in England, they're just riotous.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the assent, expressed or implied, of the governed,, and be subject to such limitations as they may impose.

Nature is our chapel.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

The alpine environment is very delicate. I've been able to see change in the mountains in the 20 years that I've been climbing full-time. Glaciers have receded. The tree-line is changing. That's very rapid to see nature changing in a 20-year period.

I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

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

Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themselves from the political conversation. They did not have an agenda. They did not want to be martyrs. They did not want to be symbols of a movement.

I'd love to do a comedy. Umm, I don't know when that will happen - maybe when I'm, like, 80 or something. But yeah, I'd love to. I'm just waiting for the right person to see my hilarious nature and offer me a comedy.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.