#ture

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#crude #delicate #finally #first #nature

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ↗

— John Burroughs

#easier #get #moral #more #out

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#created #doubt #fable #given #him

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#feature #feature films #film #films #least

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#about #against #down #enthusiastic #get

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#dialogue #i #story #structure #terrible

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job. ↗

— George W. Bush

#i #job #just #kinds #look

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#cord #fun #future #how #i

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#arms #fight #i #instinct #nature

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#culture #destinies #destiny #history #language