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I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
~ The Weeknd
Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.
~ Francis Collins
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.
~ Gerald Durrell
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
~ James Dean
Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
~ Raymond Pettibon
Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.
~ T.I.
The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
~ Ariel Sharon
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
~ Alexander Pope
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
~ Edgar Degas
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
~ Janine Benyus
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
~ Victor Hugo
The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
~ Joyce Cary
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
~ William Law
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
~ Patty Duke
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
~ John C. Calhoun
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
~ Herbert Spencer
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.
~ Marc Bloch