Noise does not disturb me, as I think that it gives a quaint atmosphere to a picture that fully matches my vision of nature and the wild species I like to photograph.
— Laurent Baheux
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
— Laurence Sterne
Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it's all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don't think it is that, that's what we're doing.
— Lauren Mayberry
In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.
— Laura van den Berg
Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
— Laura Esquivel
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
— Laura Dern
Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
— Laura Anne Gilman
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
— Larry Wilcox
I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
— Larry Harvey
Nature. That's the one thing that tips the balance in terms of living here in California. Within minutes, I can be in a desert, at the ocean, in a park, and that's the most nourishing food for my soul.
— Lara Pulver
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
To the general public, it's the nature of the sport that it's a car-dominant sport.
— Lance Stroll
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
— Lady Gaga
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
— L. Wolfe Gilbert
We brick-and-mortar ourselves away from nature. The outside world is behind glass, underneath a slab of concrete, running through PVC. Our steel and concrete are suitable enough until nature comes knocking. And when she wants to get in, nothing can stop her.
— Kyle Hill
Sherlock is a portrait of humanity - he takes nature's gift of thought and runs with it, bringing along all the human struggles, fears, and insecurities. He's the hero we could see ourselves being.
I truly believe that everything I need to flourish nutritionally is found in nature and that some stuff just shouldn't be messed with, especially the food I'm putting in my body.
— Kristin Cavallari
We need to recover our true nature by relocating ourselves on this planet, being respectful of our environment, and living in harmony with other species - like a big family.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
It's the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you're going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.
— Lauren Ambrose
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
— Laura Riding
Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.
— Lars von Trier
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.
— Larry Poons
The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.
— Larry Fitzgerald
Nature is not human hearted.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
— Langston Hughes
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
— Lajos Egri
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
— L. Sprague de Camp
It is as though nature is a wonderful symphony that science sits in awe of. It looks closely at each player, how the tubas are tuned and how the strings are strung. Creationism lets out a loud 'shush' at such excitement. Just enjoy the show and stop asking questions.
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.
— Kristin Armstrong
Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
— Laurence J. Peter
It's very hard when you start working as a wrestler to try and stop doing things that are second nature. For me, when I take a move and start selling, that is second nature for me.
— Laurel Van Ness
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.
I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.
— Laura Benanti
We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
— Larry Wilmore
By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
— Larry Kramer
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
— Larry Bird
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.
— Laeta Kalogridis
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
— Lactantius
A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.
— Kyle Korver
If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
