#natur

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#attitudes #exposed #failure #leaders #life

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with. ↗

— David Naughton

#hand #help #naturalistic #need #other

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. ↗

— Dave Navarro

#guitar #guitar playing #just #me #nature

The moon was through to the sunset side of the gap, but its light was hardly noticeable on the earth for the ruddy brilliance of the firelight. ↗

— William Golding

#beauty

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#beauty #hostile #nature #unpredictable #wonder

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#cannot #disaster #disasters #enough #knowledge

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#art #beautiful #express #expressing #honest

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#beautiful #even #grotesque #honest #me

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i