I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do. Joni Mitchell on nature
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. Ayelet Waldman on nature
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. Joni Mitchell on nature
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. Ayelet Waldman on nature
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene on nature
Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. John Updike on nature
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. Ben Stein on nature
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. H. P. Blavatsky on nature
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. Wallace Stevens on nature
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged. Michael Sheen on nature
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. Titus Livius on nature
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. Arthur C. Clarke on nature
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature. Xun Zi on nature
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. Wilhelm von Humboldt on nature
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. William C. Bryant on nature
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. Sienna Miller on nature
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Baruch Spinoza on nature
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. C. Northcote Parkinson on nature
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. Baruch Spinoza on nature