The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
— Matthew Gray Gubler
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
— Matthew Arnold
I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an amazing franchise, because under the surface of that genre, you're actually looking at human nature.
— Matt Reeves
I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.
— Matt LeBlanc
I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.
— Matt Bellamy
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
— Mason Cooley
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.
— Maryanne Wolf
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
— Mary Webb
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
— Mary Karr
Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
— Mary Gaitskill
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
— Mary Astell
Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.
— Marv Levy
A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.
— Martin Rees
It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
— Martin Luther
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
— Martin H. Fischer
I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.
— Martin Chalfie
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance - we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.
— Matthew Desmond
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
That's my nature: I'm going to be aggressive, but it has to be calculated.
— Matt Nagy
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
— Matt Haig
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
— Matsuo Basho
As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
— Mary Shelley
I've learned that there are many people out there who want to feel powerful and strong on their own terms, who want to tune out the noise and the punishing nature of grueling workouts. With 'Ballet Beautiful,' we have peeled back the mystery of ballet and allowed people to do these workouts anywhere and in their own time.
— Mary Helen Bowers
I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.
— Mary Frann
I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.
— Marvin Minsky
I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.
— Martin Scorsese
The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.'
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
Most people start eating healthy after the doctor says they have a problem. That's just human nature.
— Martin Henderson
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
— Martin Chemnitz
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
— Martin Buber
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.
It's hard work, 'Doctor Who,' but let's be frank about it, I'm fortunate to be rewarded in the ways that I am. I don't just mean financially, I mean the nature of the part and everything that comes with it.
— Matt Smith
The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
— Matt Mullenweg
I have always connected to stories with characters that don't fit in and have a constant internal battle between their better nature and the darkness within.
— Matt Czuchry
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
— Mary Matalin
What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.
— Mary Gauthier
Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.
— Mary Beth Whitehead
I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that.
— Marvin Gaye
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
— Martin Parr
I am, by nature, an optimist.
— Martin Heinrich
In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.
