I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
— Thomas Hood
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
— Thomas Hobbes
When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous piece of potentially wind-swept exposed link. That's what struck me - not treating the bridge just as a link, but as a place.
— Thomas Heatherwick
I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center.
— Thomas H. Cook
People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.
— Thomas Gibson
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
— Thomas Frank
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
— Thomas Day
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
— Thomas Carlyle
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
— Thomas Browne
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
— Thomas Aquinas
I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.
— Thom Mayne
The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.
— Thiruvalluvar
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
— Theophrastus
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
— Theodore Roethke
Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.
— Theo Jansen
Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.
— Theo James
I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.
— The Weeknd
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
— Thomas Hardy
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
— Thomas Guthrie
Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?
— Thomas Friedman
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
— Thomas Edward Brown
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
— Thomas Campbell
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.
We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.
— Theodore Zeldin
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
— Theodore Robinson
I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago.
People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that's not going to happen in the same way in London.
I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.
— Thomas Frey
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
— Thomas Eakins
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
— Thomas a Kempis
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.
— Theodore Dalrymple
I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it.
The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame so much, overcame centuries worth of issues and won a World Series, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean we're still not just prone to the laws of nature and reality and baseball.
— Theo Epstein
