A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
— Samuel Butler
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
— Samuel Adams
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
— Sam Yagan
The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.
— Sam Richardson
Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
— Sam Kean
There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
— Sam Jaeger
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
— Salman Rushdie
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
The view of Earth is spectacular.
— Sally Ride
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
— Sallust
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
— Saint Ignatius
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
— Saint Bernard
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
— Saint Basil
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
— Saint Ambrose
A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
— Said Nursi
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.
— Safak Pavey
In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
— Samuel Alexander
Our country's liberation struggle arose as a consequence of the contradiction between colonized and colonizers, between exploited and exploiters. Reformist patterns of nationalist pressure were precluded by the very nature of colonial fascism.
— Samora Machel
I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.
— Sam Worthington
And the nature of split screen is a disconnect: It’s a line between two characters, two images, two realities.
— Sam Levinson
Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
— Sam Graves
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
— Salma Hayek
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
— Sally Mann
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
Custom is second nature.
— Saint Augustine
The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
— Sai Baba
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
— Sadie Jones
The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Because of the nature of this industry, it's a bit dangerous to think far ahead.
— Samara Weaving
In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
— Sam Trammell
After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
— Salvador Dali
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.
— Sally Rooney
Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.
— Sally Hawkins
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
