Pastoral Resources

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.