Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the first time in history, human beings were seen not as creatures of divine origin, but instead, as a product of nature, an animal li...
I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering, stomach-churning insecurity of being alive. The standard subjects of history, geography, mathematics, and English seemed perve...
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty s...
My own studies on the natural history of DID indicate only 20% of DID patients have an overt DID adaption on a chronic basis, and 14% of them deliberately disguise their manifestations of DID. Only 6% make their DID obvious on an ongoing basis. Eight...
And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently -- or, to state it another way, it may mean interacting with more-than-human others in nature as if those oth...
Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
