Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
— Marcus Terentius Varro
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
I'm happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother.
— Marco Pierre White
If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.
— Marc Racicot
Great art picks up where nature ends.
— Marc Chagall
Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
— Manolo Blahnik
I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
— Mandy Patinkin
The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
— Malcolm Turnbull
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
— Malcolm Boyd
The nature of things is dharma.
— Mahavira
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The good man is the friend of all living things.
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
— Maggie Stiefvater
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Nature made the fields and man the cities.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.
Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.
— Marc Ostrofsky
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
— Mao Zedong
The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
— Manoj Bhargava
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
— Man Ray
You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice - you can't expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you're going to have some people who aren't on board.
— Malcolm Jenkins
Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
— Maimonides
All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.
— Magnus Larsson
I kind of always get described as this, like, 'nature girl'... I've lived in New York for the last five years.
— Maggie Rogers
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
— Marcus Garvey
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'
— Marco Rubio
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
— Marcel Proust
Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.
— Marc Cherry
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
— Manuel Puig
There were definitely auditions and even bookings and jobs where I played your typical Asian model minority: an IT tech guy or something of that nature. It's tough sometimes, especially when you're starting out, because they make these roles sound as if they won't be a typical nerd.
— Manny Jacinto
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
— Malcolm X
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
— Malcolm de Chazal
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
— Magnus Carlsen
