#nature

It is my nature to thin where others read. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#others #read #thin #where

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#became #ennobled #god #him #human

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beauty

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#fame #frame #frozen #get #nature

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.' ↗

— Marco Rubio

#drive #hate #houses #i #live

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#always #american #celebrated #character #could

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #exiles #fate #first #future

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ↗

— John Ruskin

#bad #bad weather #braces #delicious #different

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#destruction #hence #like #mandates #nature

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cities #dome #hills #him #little