1,057 quotes found
“I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?”
“But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.”
“I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited e...”
“It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan ...”
“Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.”
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
“Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.”
“Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!”
“Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.”
“A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in...”
“I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That,...”
“People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.”
“I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.”
“I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.”
“You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.”
“Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.”
“Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.”
“It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.”
“I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.”
“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
