I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
— Neil Young
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
— Neil Armstrong
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moonlight is sculpture.
Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
— Nathan Outteridge
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
— Natasha Trethewey
Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
— Natan Sharansky
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
— Natalie Dormer
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
— Nassau William Senior
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
— Napoleon Hill
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
— Naomi Weisstein
America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
— Nancy Gibbs
When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
— Nalini Nadkarni
People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
Science is about unravelling nature.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.
— Neil Cavuto
I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.
— Naveen Jain
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
— Nathan Fillion
I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.
— Natascha McElhone
Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
There was a lot of procrastination on Cameron's part because of the personal nature of 'Almost Famous.' There was a lot of deep, dark doubt about even doing it. I don't mind being a cheerleader, but I did reach my limit quite a few times. I do my own writing, so I understand, but I was pushed to the point of anger with the insecurity of it.
— Nancy Wilson
I've lost a lot in life because of my nature.
— Nana Patekar
There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
— Nagarjuna
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
— N. K. Jemisin
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
You can complain about problems, and you can suffer from the ramifications of issues that are social in nature and impact you, but the best thing you can do is get off your couch, get out of your home and go do something about it.
— Neil Bush
If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
— Nathaniel Smith
Sunlight is painting.
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
— Nathaniel Branden
When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.
— Nate Berkus
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
— Nas
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
— Nancy Kerrigan
When you refer to terra entities, you ornately say Mother Nature and Mother Earth. How much honour and care do all of us accord to any of the three - including our real life mother?
If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
— Nacho Figueras
