I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
It's not in my nature to be too literal.
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Nature was my kindergarten.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
