Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "
Francis Bacon
Overcome
Nature
Hidden
Related Quotes:
" Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. "
Saint Augustine
Nature
Only
About
" The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about. "
Jeh Johnson
Support
You
Good
" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "
Anton Chekhov
Pity
Sea
Neither
" I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. "
Jon Favreau
Nature
Person
Find
" The ocean is a mighty harmonist. "
William Wordsworth
Nature
Ocean
Mighty
" The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. "
Zora Neale Hurston
Who
Honor
Great
" The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. "
Stephen Hawking
Dark
Matter
Missing
" Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. "
Natalie Dormer
Life
Think
Nature
" The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. "
Wallace Stevens
Evening
Day
Sun
" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "
Francis Bacon
Fear
Dark
Children
" Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. "
Theodore Roethke
Light
Flowers
Nature
" Gray skies are just clouds passing over. "
Duke Ellington
Gray
Just
Nature
" I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. "
Norman MacCaig
Nature
Own
My Own
" I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. "
Edward Steichen
Plants
Roots
Trees
" All nature wears one universal grin. "
Henry Fielding
Wears
Grin
Nature
" For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance. "
Tim Cahill
Nature
Me
Place
" I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature. "
William Golding
Sort
Always
Am
" What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars? "
Pliny the Elder
Sails
Her
Man
" Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be. "
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Oak
Trees
Deep
" For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. "
Aristotle
Things
Eyes
Nature
" Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
See
Truth
Our
" It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. "
Frederick Douglass
Light
Nature
Fire
" He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. "
Francis Bacon
Time
New
Will
" Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. "
Michael Faraday
Laws
Be True
True
" When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. "
Francis Bacon
Friends
Loss
Great
" President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat. "
Monica Crowley
People
American
Nature
" Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. "
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Achieve
Power
Nature
" In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. "
Thomas Hobbes
Profit
Nature
Measure
" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "
Rabindranath Tagore
Time
Nature
Butterfly
" Water is the driving force of all nature. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Water
Driving
Force