#nat

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. ↗

— Henry F. Ashurst

#great #great principle #his #life #man

Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. ↗

— John James Audubon

#follow #her #me #nature #tendency

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#imagination

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#destinies #fascinated #i #just #love

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#beginning #boring #canadian #cultural #i

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#clues #continue #could #develop #fascinating

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#change #consider #constantly #like #loves

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#defend #frivolous #how #lawsuit #matter

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#award #award shows #be true #cliche #deserving