Quotes of: Natural-laws Keyword

McConnely: There's Man's Law and there's God's Law in this neighborhood. Harvey Milk: Uh huh. McConnely: And in this city. Scott Smith: You know, we pay taxes! McConnely: The San Francisco Police Force is happy to enforce either. Have a good day. [le...

Milk

English Bob: A plague on you. A plague on the whole stinking lot of ya, without morals or laws. And all you whores got no laws. You got no honor. It's no wonder you all emigrated to America, because they wouldn't have you in England. You're a lot of ...

Unforgiven

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, develo...

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Choke

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

Dust to Dust

Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn’t care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.

Echopraxia

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Elantris

Nature is not kind; it is not good. Do you really think nature cares about any individual living thing?

The First

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Brighton Belle

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Beating Cancer with Natural Medicine

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

The Book of Rites

As above in consciousness, so below in matter

The Book of Light: The Nature of God, the Structure of Consciousness and the Universe within You

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

Quincy Jones

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

Frans de Waal

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

26.2: Marathon Stories