Words matter. These are the best Natures Quotes from famous people such as Theodore Roosevelt, Peggy Noonan, Antonia Fraser, Paul Bloom, Henry B. Eyring, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
I’m very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don’t choose to do so more often.
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.
All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you’ll choose to do something for a few years, and you’ll still be the same you.
At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
We don’t invent our natures. They’re issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
It’s a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don’t.
Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn’t come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they’re totally cutting loose.
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
Though involvement in music and the arts can’t cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
I do not go so far as the extreme male ‘sexists’ who contend that women should confine themselves to the home and children and that any search for alternative careers is unnatural. On the other hand, I do not see much more support for the opposite contention that domestic-type women are violating their natures.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children.
Growing up, dating seemed pretty straightforward: If someone was interested in getting to know you on a romantic level, they approached, exchanged info, and proceeded to communicate with you in a consistent fashion between outings of various natures.
If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.
Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then… it’s gone.
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
Children haven’t changed – the world around them has. Their basic natures haven’t changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.
It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
I do believe that peoples’ natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
