I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Alexander Humboldt

The aim was to assassinate the commander of the Wolf Brigade, but the suicide bomber failed to reach his aim, and he blew himself up. And this is the nature of the fight between us and the terrorists.

Baqir Jabbur

Changes in oxygen may have been a huge driver for mammalian evolution. Nature is so damned complicated.

Peter Ward

Overall, we'll probably see a continuation of the choppy nature of the market, probably with a slight downward bias.

Robert Walberg

All this is contingent upon Mother Nature.

Chuck Vale

Anytime you?re in these conference games, it sets you up for the competitive nature.

Scot Thomas

We want to play with the fact that she's still in love with him, but she knows it's a disaster and he's still in love with her and isn't quite so aware of the disaster nature of it.

David Shore

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

G. M. Trevelyan

Within the last few months, the nature of the investigation has changed.

Ron Huberman

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

This is a winter festival and, Katrina aside, Mother Nature has as much to say about turnout as New Orleans.

Mack Bradley

They had to get everything from nature. You could only use what was in your own backyard.

John Kraft

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I don't think we can just write off two kids getting into a fight with the nature of our society today. That could come back on us that we knew about it and didn't do anything about it.

Steve Payne

We're needing a little help from Mother Nature to put this thing to bed. We need some rain.

Michelle Finch

Primarily it was to provide the board with a full understanding of the nature of the complaint filed in District Court and also what the legal issues are being challenged.

Bruce Messinger

What surprises me is that he (Clark) knows this thing is set for a preliminary hearing. I'm especially surprised after a motion of this nature had been set for federal court.

Wesley Pitters

It's changing Mother Nature a bit. It depends on how you handle the issues. If you have the right strategy to do it, you can conserve a lot of the land.

Klaus Birkel

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Robert H. Bork

Something of this nature is extremely rare. Our experience is that the mammography facilities in Pennsylvania are doing an exemplary job.

Ron Ruman

It was the love of love,the love that swallows up all else,a grateful love,a love of nature, of people,of animals,a love engenderinggentleness and goodnessthat moved meand that I saw in you.

William Carlos Williams

What we're trying to do is to show how, in your own backyard, you can have a place where children are engaged by nature.

Michael Devlin

Mother nature is not going to act like a reservoir as it has in the past and when the water comes out all at once, there isn't enough capacity to contain it.

Tim Barnett

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

It's very typical of South African women. When you deal with a country with harsh landscapes, where life isn't really convenient, the nature of the beast is that you do what you have to do.

The Angel

I think it gets at what some people might think is the ludicrous nature of the alleged reward for a suicide bomber, so I think its legitimate and fair comment.

John Temple

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The very nature of compensation requires that it should cover losses incurred by an accident.

Yasser Fathi

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Conrad Veidt

If the volunteers don't get out there and clean up the trail, Mother Nature would close it.

Joe Chavez

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Karl von Clausewitz

Lyric poetry is by its very nature elegiac - we write about what in fact is already slipping away from us.

Paul Mariani

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Cory Doctorow

Unfortunately the nature of this conflict is that we're going to have to stay there longer than we would like.

Stephen Biddle

There is nothing to indicate that the absences are the result of a boycott or anything of that nature.

Terry Stewart

There are always going to be people who have issues with the public outlay of money for something of this nature, but it's hard to see how this is going to hurt Charlotte.

Patrick Rishe

It also occurred to me, what's the nature of the emergency? They did not point that out.

David Burton

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

Pliny the Elder

That's the nature of party leaders in two different branches trying to do what's best for their party in their own branch.

Stephen Voss

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Paul De Man

I was told New Orleans... wanted to go another direction. Through it, I learned a valuable lesson... That's the nature of the business.

Willie Jackson

He wasn't a boxer, but that's a general term that we would use to denote changes in the brain of a degenerative nature, ... They can be from one intensely traumatic injury, or they can be from repetitive and cumulative injuries, which is what we believe happened here.

Cyril Wecht

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

John Coltrane

We are half a micron away from mimicking nature.

Antoni Tomsia

Now we can make synthetic collagen that's longer than natural collagen. We just don't have to take what nature gives us. We can make it longer and stronger.

Ronald Raines

It's human nature to always look at what your neighbor is doing.

Richard Wilkinson

Never. Nature is always changing. It always changes its face. Even when they're dry I challenge people to go down there and enjoy the view.

Roger Steen

This is a very encouraging achievement. It was really hard to track snow leopards down due to their nature and habits, since they live at high altitudes and usually only come out after dark.

Ma Ming

Given the huge nature (of the disaster), it is inevitable there would be areas of failure. There are a lot of areas we can look and say could have been done better. But if we look at the overall dimensions of the thing, we have to cut some people some slack.

Bob Bennett

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences.

Robert Ingersoll

I do not believe that Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart because of her face.

Francis Thompson

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There really is a legitimate up-for-grabs nature to the race. In neither case can you say that [Crist and Davis are] solid front-runners.

Brad Coker

The Southerner tends to look upon nature as something which is given and something which is finally inscrutable. This is equivalent to saying that he looks upon it as the creation of a Creator.

Richard Weaver

We're both fairly impulsive by nature. That's why we just clicked.

Gwyn Gauger

A lot of wrestlers will tell you they hate losing more than they like winning. It's that nature I don't want to lose.

Joe Dubuque

We still want to keep our eclectic nature.

Mark Schieber

When people are faced with a tragedy of this nature, they can really show their best, and that seems to be what is happening here.

Paul Chambers

It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

Thomas Troward

We decided to make it criminal simply because 24 hours has passed. We have not located her in a hospital or any place of that nature. Since she has not returned ... there has to be another reason for her not being here.

Randy Belcher

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Frank Wilczek

It's just human nature that people are interested in fun and convenience.

Ray Lepper

Art may imitate wild nature; less often does it dare to place itself in the midst of it, and when it does, it may come out second best.

John Hart

It's really hard to find corners with that physical nature to them.

Duane Akina

Given the seasonal nature of agriculture in Western Canada, a loss in the first quarter is not unexpected.

Brian Hayward

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Ernest Renan

I thought well, if a little kid is going to take off to her grandmother's, she must, in my mind, like the woods and nature. The journal thing comes right up again.

Melissa Sweet

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

William Whewell

When kids climb on his lap, he tickles them to get off. There's massages that go on at the dance studio among all of these students, teachers. They're dance students by nature.

Myron Takemoto

Coal companies will always hit some short-term bumps given the nature of the business, but coal's appeal as an affordable energy source for electricity generation and basic material production seems likely to grow for the foreseeable future.

Bill D'alonzo

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Tara Lemmey

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Louis Agassiz

'Human reason is by nature architectonic.'

Immanuel Kant

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

There's nothing like this, this one was a devastating act of nature.

Ed Pratt

Due to the nature of that litigation, we can't start (construction) contracts. There's a lot of motivation to get (the issues resolved).

Edward Wotitzky

Mother Nature has backed off. We are looking at slightly better conditions in the forecast.

Elizabeth Morse

The prolonged nature of the storm could increase the threat of coastal erosion.

Eric Blake

Worthy of their human nature.

Ernest Mandel

He got hooked on the loving nature of the people.

Eva Dehart

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. . . . We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Zora Neale Hurston

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

I liked the connection between art and nature.

Elizabeth Miller

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

Ernest A. Jones

The correction on Friday eradicated some of the bullish consensus. It's the nature of this market to correct in an abrupt, steep but short-lived fashion.

Eugene Peroni

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Edith Hamilton

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Edward Noyes Westcott

The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people up, and things of that nature, I just find all of that to be absurd.

Elliot Mintz

When you have people enjoying the hills and hiking that evolves into the [Stough Canyon] nature center and then becomes a hub of the offerings up there.

Eric Hansen

The basic market leadership is still intact. It's the nature of this market to correct in an abrupt, steep but short-lived fashion.

Eugene Peroni

Charlie, what is nature of life?

Edgar Bergen

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

Edwin Booth

He really did live in two different worlds. He was real good at his job. He knew engineering. It came as second nature to him, and he always had a good job especially when he was with Mobile. But he was equally if not more adept as a poet.

Elliot Jacobowitz

The broader message is that technological hubris will always get you in trouble with nature.

Erik Larson

Our approach isn't to call for feminism, but rather femininity. In nature, such differences are there and they are important.

Eyad Madani