It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. Taylor Caldwell
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. Dee Dee Myers
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. David Attenborough
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. Josef Albers
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. Herbert Simon
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. David Ogden Stiers
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. Pliny the Elder
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. William Law
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. Hugh Hefner
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. Quintilian
I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature. Ricky Williams
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. Thomas Frank
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. Joseph Butler
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. Rupert Sheldrake
Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this. Mercedes Ruehl
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. Mary Wollstonecraft
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. Alex Trebek
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. Margaret J. Wheatley
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. Stanislav Grof
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. David Deutsch