3,407 quotes
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
Oliver Stone
Director · American · b. 1946
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Orison Swett Marden
Writer · American
Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire
Writer · French · 1694 – 1778
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Statesman · Roman
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
Author · American · 1872 – 1939
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Writer · American · 1780 – 1842
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Ralph Inge
Clergyman · English · 1860 – 1954
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Politician · American · 1900 – 1965
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
Author · English · 1709 – 1784
There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
Jack Kingston
Politician · American · b. 1955
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Henry Miller
Author · American · 1891 – 1980
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey
Philosopher · American · 1859 – 1952
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
Harold Pinter
Dramatist · English · b. 1930
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Clergyman · American · 1869 – 1942
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
Helmut Jahn
Architect · b. 1940
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher · 1632 – 1677
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President · American · 1882 – 1945
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau
Author · American · 1817 – 1862
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Novelist · French · 1900 – 1944
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Author · American
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
W. Somerset Maugham
Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher · Spanish · 1601 – 1658
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal
Philosopher · French · 1623 – 1662
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Author · Irish · 1919 – 1999
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Writer · French
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
James Lovelock
Scientist · English · b. 1919
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Scientist · Polish · 1473 – 1543
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas
Theologian · Italian
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
Kevin Kelly
Editor · American
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
Writer · English
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning
Poet · English · 1812 – 1889
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler
Poet · British · 1835 – 1902
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Thomas Huxley
Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
Author · American · 1904 – 1987
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo
Artist · Italian · 1475 – 1564
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Doug Coupland
Author · Canadian · b. 1961
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet · German · 1749 – 1832
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Phyllis Schlafly
Activist · American · b. 1924
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma
Leader · Indian
Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
Jim Harrison
Writer · American · b. 1937
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
Philosopher · Greek
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams
Photographer · American · 1902 – 1984
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Horace
Poet · Roman
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet · American · 1803 – 1882
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Muhammad Iqbal
Poet · Pakistani · 1877 – 1938