#nature

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ↗

— John Ruskin

#done #man #nature #part #pleasing

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. ↗

— Richard Russo

#anybody #aspect #darker #easier #i

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game. ↗

— Mark Russell

#baseball #baseball game #because #beloved #booed

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #anything #behave #cost #cruelly

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it. ↗

— Bob Saget

#around #been #comedy #how #i

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#boulder #bush #deep #dig #gentle

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it. ↗

— Neal Schon

#deal #did #during #first #first time

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#another #indifferent #men #merely #nature

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#human nature #nature #politeness #warmth #wax