When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
— John McCarthy
Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There's an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can't really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other.
— John McAfee
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
— John Marshall
I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.
— John Mackey
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
— John Lubbock
I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
— John Lasseter
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
— John Keats
When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant's tusk, we saw it as making money.
— John Kani
The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised.
— John James Audubon
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
— John Hoeven
And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.
— John Hersey
Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.
— John Gregory Dunne
How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.
— John Eccles
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
— John Dewey
Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.
— John Darnielle
I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
— John Cusack
I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
— John McCain
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
— John Mayer
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
InSight will get to the 'core' of the nature of the interior and structure of Mars, well below the observations we've been able to make from orbit or the surface.
— John M. Grunsfeld
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.
— John Lanchester
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
— John Joly
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.
— John Hillcoat
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
— John Hales
Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
— John Garamendi
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
— John Dryden
The nature of a football team means you're relying on 10 other guys. Even then, that doesn't guarantee a win.
— John David Washington
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— John Dalberg-Acton
By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel manner, complementary to the other approaches which have developed over the same period.
— John Cornforth
We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?
Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
— John Hutton
We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.
— John Hickenlooper
Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.
— John Guare
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
— John Fowles
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
— John Donne
I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
— John D. Rockefeller
