I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Nature like man sometimes weeps from gladness.
It seems to be a law of nature inflexible and inexorable that those who...
Complex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult...
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those...
Virtue is a habit of the mind consistent with nature and moderation and...
Nature abhors annihilation.
Our soul is cast into a body where it finds number time dimension....
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Deceit is the game of petty spirits and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Subdue your appetites my dears and you've conquered human nature.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market...
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts keep people...
Suffering is permanent obscure and dark And shares the nature of infinity.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Man is but a reed the most feeble thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is...
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better...
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth...
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means...
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially...
Borrow trouble for yourself if that's your nature but don't lend it to your...
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your...
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted...
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful...
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is...
Man's true nature being lost everything becomes his nature as his true good...
Of all nature's gifts to the human race what is sweeter to a man than his...
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature...
There is but one law for all namely that law which governs all law the law...
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even...
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the...
