Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. – Arthur C. Clarke
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. – Sienna Miller
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. – Baruch Spinoza
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. – C. Northcote Parkinson
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. – Baruch Spinoza
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. – Bhumibol Adulyadej
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. – Muhammad Iqbal
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. – Lauryn Hill
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them – these nature spirits who call us here – sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. – Alex Grey
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. – Samuel Richardson
I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. – Lena Dunham
Custom is second nature. – Augustine of Hippo
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. – Jerome K. Jerome
English majors understand human nature better than economists do. – Jane Smiley
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. – Jane Smiley
As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside. – David Suzuki
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. – Steve Lacy
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. – Tony Campolo
The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature. – Vera Farmiga