The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. – Willem de Kooning
I’m not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges – which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it. – Stacey D’Erasmo
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. – Walter Ulbricht
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. – William Bartram
Guns can turn you into an insider even if you’re an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies. – Walter Kirn
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. – Story Musgrave
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That’s done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it’s interstate in nature. And federal government – this is one area we have no authority. – Spencer Abraham
I didn’t really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren’t very – I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it’s very hard to get accepted; lots of competition. – Steve Buscemi
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image. – Stephen Hawking
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. – Virchand Gandhi
Fracking kills, and it doesn’t just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world. – Yoko Ono
In the exercise of God’s efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature. – William Ames
Actors, by nature, are insecure. I don’t see that as necessarily a bad thing. It is good to question yourself, be self-analytical. You get a better performance if you challenge yourself. If you go around thinking you’re great, you’re never going to challenge or scare yourself. – Sarah Greene
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. – Thomas Edward Brown
The beliefs I was raised with – to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures – have had a huge impact on me. – Stella McCartney
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist. – Sebastian Pinera
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. – Thomas Mellon
Over and over, nature shows that it’s a really tough adversary. That’s why it’s important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats. – Tom Frieden
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can’t play a song; maybe I’m hitting on something that I don’t want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy. – Vanessa Carlton
Nature’s laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. – Warren De la Rue
Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts. – Sabine Baring-Gould
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don’t hear the sound; you are the sound. – Seung Sahn
It’s the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody’s time. – Ted Ligety
