Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

John Lasseter

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

Charles Dickens

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

David Hume

Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

Bliss Carman

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Bill Hader

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

Vonda Shepard

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

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.

We'd like to know where it was seen, who they saw in it, anything of that 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.

Farrah Fawcett

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Aberjhani

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

Claude Monet

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

Cormac McCarthy

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Richard Louv

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

Ram Dass

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?