#nature

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#art #assault #feminism #imagination #moment

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#circumference #everywhere #infinite #nature #nowhere

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#human nature #middle #nature #stand #thing

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. ↗

— Thomas More

#daily #guiding #include #infinity #inviting

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#because #bored #desires #down #enemy

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted. ↗

— Randy Moss

#business #desire #diminish #feel #frustrating

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#along #authorizes #barriers #been #border

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#becomes #bite #day #following #immediately

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#god #moral #nature #only #revealed