My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away. – Henry Grunwald
Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear. – Hanya Yanagihara
Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist’s good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it. – Howard Jacobson
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. – Hamlin Garland
If you are going to make a change, don’t go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you’re going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge. – Gary McCord
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. – Havelock Ellis
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. – Henri Matisse
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. – Gustave Flaubert
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. – Henry David Thoreau
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. – Harold Coffin
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get. – Greg Walden
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville
I’m not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It’s in my nature to be a battler. – Harmon Killebrew
Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. – Giorgio Vasari
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. – Heinrich Heine
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing. – Harold Ramis
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. – Georges Cuvier
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. – Gilbert White
American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it’s full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that. – Helen Mirren
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. – Giambattista Vico
Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. – Gustav Mahler
