God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nature.
Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.
We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
PM Modi has provided visionary leadership with his focus on the welfare of the poor and inclusive nature taking along his whole team, including states, parties, all schools of thought, all sections of society.
I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.
I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.
George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
