Quotes of: David-bowie Keyword

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

A. E. Housman

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Alexander Pope

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.

Adam Smith

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

Charles Eastman

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Diane Ackerman

A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.

Jakob Bohme

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

J. Paul Getty

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Ludovico Ariosto

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Ovid

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Peter Singer

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Talib Kweli

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

Vinoba Bhave

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

William Petty

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Teju Cole

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Thomas Reid

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

June Jordan

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

Alain de Botton

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Al Goldstein