Quotes of: Naturalism Keyword

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.

Unknown

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Why Men Fight

Chance favors the connected mind.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Assassination Vacation

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

Robert Carlyle

If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.

Rosanne Cash

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Thomas Jefferson

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

Loren Eiseley

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Larry Niven

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

Mickey Mantle

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

R.A. Salvatore

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Markham Shaw Pyle

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

John Cale

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

Tia Mowry

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

William Weld

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

LZ Granderson

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

Nan Hayworth