#nature

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#expense #favor #mode #nature #speaking

People want to sensationalize things. That's just the nature of the business. ↗

— Seal

#just #nature #people #things #want

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out. ↗

— Seal

#because #emotional #everything #experiencing #feeling

It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world’s in a rush to be beautiful. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#beauty

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. ↗

— William H. Seward

#assuming #cannot #equal #falls #ground

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

#because #constitution #constitutional #law #must

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

#constitution #deem #does #established #i

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#happiest #i #into #like #nature

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#i #individuals #nature #satirical #saw

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#between #dictators #external #genuine #least