Top 1200 Nature Of Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.

It is part of our human nature to want to be liked. It is part of our human nature to worry about what others think of us. It is an attribute of greatness and of American exceptionalism to not surrender to our nature, but to be guided by an inner calling to persevere and to prevail, no matter the personal cost.

When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, wrong when it tends otherwise.

so your father told you once that you were his princess you won't see the castle you cannot find your prince and now you've grown a lot and your dress don't fit right your daddy's not a hero he stole your chariot so here you are in pieces trying to prove to us it's real the softness of your smile and the lies you want to feel the scales beneath your skin are showing off today there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and I have made a home here for me you'll burn it down with your fantasy

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

It is impossible to teach people to conserve nature if they don't learn to love nature.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have …the earth and nature.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?