Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures.
— Ryuichi Sakamoto
Our body is part of nature. Our creations, they're not natural. We build things that aren't natural, but our bodies, they're part of that system.
I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature.
— Ryan Kwanten
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
— Ruth St. Denis
We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.
— Ruth Bradley
My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.
— Russell Wilson
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
— Russell Baker
Human nature fascinates me.
— Rush Limbaugh
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
— Rupert Sheldrake
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
— Rudyard Kipling
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
— Rudolf Steiner
However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again.
What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life.
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
— Rudolf Otto
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
— Rudolf Arnheim
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
— Roy Rogers
Any hit films, impact-creating films, leave their mark on the industry. It is in human nature to try to follow something that is creating an impact.
— S. S. Rajamouli
I was born and grew up in Tokyo, so I didn't know about nature.
I went to see one of those pianos drowned in tsunami water near Fukushima and recorded it. Of course, it was totally out of tune, but I thought it was beautiful. I thought, 'Nature tuned it.'
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.
— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
— Ruth Bernhard
I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
— Russel Honore
Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are present between the sixth or seventh year and the fourteenth year of life. This quality of human nature is what mathematical instruction should be based on.
Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It must find ways and means of penetrating into the sphere of the spiritual, a domain which cannot be perceived with outer physical senses nor apprehended with the intellect which is bound to the brain.
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world.
— Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.
— Roy Lichtenstein
Maybe we should admit that our science is not as perfect as we would like to believe and that nature is ultimately inexplicable and beyond our control.
— S.E. Cupp
I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature.
Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.
— Ruth Park
My theory is that if I can stay present in the moment in my life as frequent as possible the artwork will be more reflective of my nature and my experiences.
— Ruston Kelly
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
— Russell Smith
I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.
— Ruskin Bond
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.
— RuPaul
Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature.
The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.
— Ruby Dee
