Quotes of: Natural-disaster Keyword

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Arthur Keith

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Blaise Pascal

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Christopher Dawson

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Charles Eastman

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

Clyde Tombaugh

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

Cynthia Weil

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

David Gross

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

David Hume

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D. H. Lawrence

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

David Rockefeller

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

Daphne Zuniga

I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

Emilia Clarke

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Emily Dickinson

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

Frances Wright

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Honore de Balzac