N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nature has a myriad of weapons to combat human arrogance.”
“Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.”
Source: Josie and Jack: A Novel
“Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“Nature has a way of calming the mind and soothing the soul, offering us a much needed respite from the chaos of everyday life.”
“Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.”
“Nature has a way of disrupting predictability to introduce us to our true selves.”
Source: The First Snowfall Of Winter: Love’s Eternal Light Amidst the Ruins of Despair
“Nature has a way of taking care of things. If you have a certain figure you'll go back to it. Breast feed and don't worry about it.”
“Nature has a way of turning on one’s inner music. You lose some heaviness, and suddenly become as light as a leaf. And that magic does not happen elsewhere. It occurs only when you are in nature.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...”
“Nature has achieved nothing quite as preposterous as an adolescent moose, his head as big as a beer keg with antlers the size of oven mitts.”
Source: Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race
“Nature has always had more force than education.”
“Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet”
“Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.”
“Nature has an intangible ability to heal troubled thoughts, and offer a path of productive distraction.”
“Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?”
Source: The Windup Girl
“Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.”
“Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Nature has buffered our children not only physically-- prepubescent children have the lowest death rate from all causes-- but psychologically as well, by endowing them with hope, abundant and irrational.”
Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Nature has buffered out children not only physically--prepubescent children have the lowest death rate from all causes-- but psychologically as well, by endowing them with hope, abundant and irrational.”
Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.”
“Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.”
“Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.”
“Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.”
“Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.”
“Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do. It has done enough. It has given you life, it has given you opportunity; now how to use it, it has left up to you. Meditation is your freedom, not a biological necessity. You can learn in a certain period of time every day to strengthen meditation, to make it stronger - but carry the flavor of it the whole day.”
“Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.”
“Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.”
“Nature has created countless number of wonders, we got a long way to go as man have created only seven wonders.”
“Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.”
Source: A pocketful of pebbles
“Nature has different times.”
“Nature has distributed intelligence unequally, but imagination equally.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Nature has embellish'd rare as May
Its dew-gemm'd primroses glitter'd up,
To show pride from each budding weed,
Since from skies naught a ray dismay.”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children.”
“Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.”
“Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.”
“Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.”
Source: Claudian with an English Translation by Maurice Platnauer (Complete)
“Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.”
“Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.”
“Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.”
“Nature has given us tools that work naturally to clean and sanitize the earth.”
“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”
Source: Works
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
“Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.”
“Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.”
“Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.”