#nature

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#ape #autumn #beauty #dying #escape

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#art #dear #flesh #god #how

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#film #film acting #incredibly #just #mind

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#leave #love #rose #stem #thou

By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#any #beyond #competent #doubt #evidence

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#affairs #because #demonstrative #evidence #expect

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco. ↗

— Bill Gross

#human #human nature #institutions #lose #means

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#evil #feel #good #i #i feel

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#conclude #could #creation #creator #fondness

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#brother #each #eddie #else #guitarist