N Quotes
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“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. When you are so ready, you can't do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are ripe as could be. The eggs should become more developed the older you get, not die slowly from the day you're born. That's one thing God got wrong.”
“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life." - Pg. 82”
Source: Pompeii
“Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations
“Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.”
“Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.”
“Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Nature has her proper interest; and he will know
what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing
has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.”
Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge
“Nature has inclined us to love men.”
“Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.”
“Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.”
“Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.”
Source: The spectator
“Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.”
Source: The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe
“Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.”
“Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.”
“Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.”
Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study
“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”
“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.”
Source: Thoughts
“Nature  …  has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other planets, and betwixt the different systems.… We observe, in all of them, enough to raise our curiosity, but not to satisfy it  …  It does not appear to be suitable to the wisdom that shines throughout all nature, to suppose that we should see so far, and have our curiosity so much raised  …  only to be disappointed at the end  …  This, therefore, naturally leads us to consider our present state as only the dawn or beginning of our existence, and as a state of preparation or probation for farther advancement.…”
“Nature has made nothing in vain.”
Source: New Atalantis
“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters
“Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings
“Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.”
“Nature has mastered compounding. At Mayflower-Plymouth we want our capital, profits and growth to compound the way compounding happens in thriving forests.”
“Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.”
Source: The writings of a savage
“Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.”
“Nature has neither kernel Nor shell”
Source: Poems of Goethe: a sequel to Goethe, the lyrist
“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
“Nature has no beauty forbidden
Manmade concrete slab: guilt-ridden
Wings or leaves whatever we may care
Those limbs with the birds only trees will share”
“Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.”
“Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.”
“Nature has no Laws — only habits.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true.”
“Nature has no outline. Imagination has.”
“Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.”
Source: Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God
“Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.”
“Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.”
Source: The development of personality
“Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.”
“nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.”
“Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.”
Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war
“Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.”
Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war
“Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.”
Source: The Gathering Storm
“Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.”
Source: The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays
“Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.”
“Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.”
“Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo