#nature

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature. ↗

— Courtney Love

#i #nature #woman

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#good #good breeding #good nature #good sense #little

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. ↗

— James Madison

#controls #external #govern #government #greatest

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. ↗

— Jose Marti

#calm #controlled #encouragement #endeavor #give

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? ↗

— David McCullough

#deciding #factor #history #how #human

You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups. ↗

— Joy Williams

#life

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#grey #how #i #just #machine

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it. ↗

— Mark Messier

#everybody #goes #i #i think #just

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. ↗

— Plato

#children #education #end #into #man