#nature

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#expense #favor #mode #nature #speaking

People want to sensationalize things. That's just the nature of the business. ↗

— Seal

#just #nature #people #things #want

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out. ↗

— Seal

#because #emotional #everything #experiencing #feeling

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#creative #dead #effort #everything #living

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#nature #obtainable #reach #requires #superfluous

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#consciousness #distribution #explains #few #first

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#economy #following #give #name #nature

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#back #back to school #contrary #doing #goes

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#happiest #i #into #like #nature

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#i #individuals #nature #satirical #saw