Quotes with ill-nature

Quotes 661 till 680 of 948.

  • Frederick the Great Talents go by nature not by birth.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Bill Nye Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Don DeLillo Technology is lust removed from nature.
    White Noise (2011) 317
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Seneca That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bhagavad Gita That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • M. Henry That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
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  • Philip Massinger That you can speak so well, and do so ill!
    The Fatal Dowry (1632) 1, 1
    Philip Massinger
    English dramatist (1583 - 1640)
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  • Rachel Carson The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Paul De Man The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The Amen of nature is always a flower.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy Al Bengston The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Auguste Rodin 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.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Ad Reinhardt The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Willem De Kooning The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Michael Caine The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.
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