Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
— Wellington Mara
Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.
— Wayne LaPierre
Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
— Wayne Dyer
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
— Warren De la Rue
The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
— Walther Bothe
The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
— Walter Rudolf Hess
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
— Walter Lippmann
Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.
— Walter Kirn
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
— Walter Gropius
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
— Walter Bagehot
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
— Walt Whitman
You can't just let nature run wild.
— Walt Disney
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
— Wallace Stevens
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
— Wadada Leo Smith
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
— W. Somerset Maugham
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
— W. H. Auden
I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
— Wayne Rogers
I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
— Wayne Knight
What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
— Warren Buffett
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
— Walter Ulbricht
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
— Walter Lang
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
— Walter Kaufmann
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
— Walter Gilbert
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.
— W. Kamau Bell
There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider... The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.
— W. G. Sebald
'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
— Wayne McGregor
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
— Washington Irving
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the Internet. But we're still very animalistic.
— Wangechi Mutu
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
— Walter Scott
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
— Walter Martin
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
— Walt Mossberg
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
The imagination is man's power over nature.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
— W. H. Davies
