#natur

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

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#because #came #civilization #common #common sense

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#artificial #attached #banks #been #both

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#doing #double #every #human #human nature

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#could #i #manager #natural #natural ability

The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#age

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#character #habits #i #mind #natural

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#always #flowers #see #them #those

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#error #extraordinarily #men #nature #opinion

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humanity #inspirational #age