Quotes of: Natural-disaster Keyword

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Ibrahim Babangida

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Iain McGilchrist

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

James Allen

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

John James Audubon

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Joseph Addison

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

John Barton

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

John Connolly

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

Jack Dee

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

John Joly

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Jacques Lacan

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Joni Mitchell

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

Joni Mitchell

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Jerry Rubin

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Lucy Larcom

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig von Mises

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Margaret Atwood

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Michael Faraday

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game.

Nicos Anastasiades