#nat

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#era #fascinated #history #i #i am

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. ↗

— Donna Leon

#anyone #around #best #better #dishonest

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#book #come #defensive #find #first

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#horror #imagination #dreams

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. ↗

— Primo Levi

#anyone #experiences #explosive #gossip #nature

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. ↗

— Primo Levi

#beautiful #exchange #house #i #inside

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#just #just one #keep #like #peculiar

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#bring #budget #call #category #decade

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#america #because #become #believe #care

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#men #movement #natural #our #position