Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
— Joyce Carol Oates
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
— Joshua Reynolds
I grew up playing sports, so I think of what it would be like to be in the NBA if you were a great player when Michael Jordan was playing. You could've been a phenomenal player, but you're in the Jordan era. That's the unfortunate thing about the competitive nature of entertainment. But we know what we signed up for.
— Joshua Henry
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
— Joseph P. Bradley
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
— Joseph Joubert
Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.
— Joseph de Maistre
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
— Joseph Conrad
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
— Joseph Butler
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble savage, of an inherently good human nature hampered by bad institutions, of the ideal state, of social justice and so forth - none of these originated or blossomed on the banks of the Volga.
— Joseph Brodsky
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
— Joseph Addison
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
Law is born from despair of human nature.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
If the world is to avoid a collision with nature - one that humanity surely cannot win - we must act boldly on every front, particularly with respect to carbon pricing and the coherence of our economic and energy policies.
— Jose Angel Gurria
'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.
— Josie Bissett
I like the concept of escalating warfare, but you need someone to fight back in order for things to escalate. If there's no confrontation or argument going on, it's too dull for me. I think that's the nature of the prankster: Things are too quiet. What can I do?
— Joshua Malina
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.
— Joshua Bell
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
— Joseph McCabe
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
— Joseph Campbell
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.
At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
— Jose Rizal
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.
— Jordana Brewster
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.
— Joshua Jackson
Toughing out the winter is a dedication to my heritage, both in terms of not going 'soft' by kowtowing to nature's volatility and staying physically close to my family in New England. I don't run from that kind of pressure.
— Josh Gondelman
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.
I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.
— Joseph Kanon
I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don't seem to have the first clue.
— Joseph Fiennes
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
— Jose Marti
