As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandem...
In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the...
Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away ...
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.
I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.
My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material...
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
