The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.
— Pierre Nanterme
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
— Pierre Charron
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
— Pierce Brosnan
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
— Phyllis Schlafly
I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.
— Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
— Phillip Noyce
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
— Phillip E. Johnson
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I don't think it's my job or anything that I owe somebody. But it is nature - coaching - and I like to think I'm pretty charitable in the sense that I like to help people out, share and talk football.
— Philip Rivers
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
— Philip James Bailey
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
— Philip Emeagwali
I grew up without religion, but my parents have always been somewhat mystical about nature: The mountain is looking at us, stuff like that.
— Phil Elverum
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
— Peter Singer
That's what's really bothering me about Trump is the hypocrisy, because when Trump was a candidate, and he got elected - because, by and large, he told the truth about the phony nature of the recovery.
— Peter Schiff
While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.
— Peter Maurer
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
— Peter Lynch
I'm not a winner. My nature is not the nature of a winner.
— Peter Handke
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
— Pierre Curie
One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
— Pierre Bonnard
The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.
— Pier Luigi Loro Piana
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
— Phyllis Battelle
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
— Phillips Brooks
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
— Philippe Petit
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
— Philip Pullman
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
— Peter Ustinov
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
— Peter Senge
We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.
— Peter Riegert
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
— Peter Marshall
Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.
— Peter Hitchens
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.
— Peter Guber
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
— Pierre Corneille
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.
— Pico Iyer
Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.
— Phylicia Rashad
That's kind of just the nature of our business, is that you're really putting a lot of energy and time and care into something that isn't necessarily going to last forever.
— Phillipa Soo
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.
— Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
— Philip Sidney
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?'
I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
— Peter Thiel
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.
— Peter Morgan
This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.
I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.
— Peter Heller
