Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the mo...

Virginia Henley

Pita: Do you have a girlfriend, Creasy? Creasy: What? Pita: Do you have a girlfriend? Creasy: No. What kind of question is that, anyway? You're supposed to be studying history, okay? Pita: It is history... Creasy history. Creasy: No, that's ancient h...

Man on Fire

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

Liars, Inc.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Reflections on Gender and Science

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

Michael Winner

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Yvette Clarke

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Paul Valery

The Bible is a history book.

Amar'e Stoudemire

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other difference than this: that...

Les Diaboliques

My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conce...

A People's History of the United States

In my thinking, the nature of things, the nature of God if you will, must be common to all.

The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

Sri Aurobindo

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

Alex Tabarrok

God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!

D.T. Suzuki

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Dalai Lama

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is v...

Tamae Watanabe