I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving — E. B. White
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. — Taylor Swift
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself — Thomas Hobbes
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof — Beatrice Potter Webb
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. — Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined — Baruch Spinoza
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate — Baruch Spinoza
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. — Baruch Spinoza
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. — Thom Mayne
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and — Umberto Eco
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including americans. — Adlai E. Stevenson II
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from nature. — Christopher Morley
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame — Bernard de Mandeville
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. — Alan Dean Foster
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding — Adrian Cronauer
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. — Cyril Northcote Parkinson
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which — Agnes Smedley
The Goddess of old europe and ancient crete represented the unity of life in nature — Carol Patrice Christ
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered nine — Carol Patrice Christ
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. — Alan Bleasdale
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons — Galileo Galilei
No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological — Thomas Szasz
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the — Aleister Crowley