Nature Quotes

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the s...

Johannes Stark

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

John Sculley

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the uni...

John Shelby Spong

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

John Shelby Spong

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

John Shirley

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

John Shirley

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

Jonathan Shapiro

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

James Taylor

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealin...

James Thurber

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Jeff Tweedy

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

Jeff Tweedy

It's weird leaving London - you go through the fields between London and Essex and think, 'This is so beautiful - why am I living in a box?' Then there's that London thing where the centre of a roundabout is passed off as a green space. It's not a gr...

Joe Thomas

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

John Tenniel

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

Jesse Ventura

I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions...

Jesse Ventura

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Jules Verne

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

Jules Verne

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

Jules Verne

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those...

Jacki Weaver