Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
— James Q. Wilson
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
— James Montgomery
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
— James Mark Baldwin
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
— James Loeb
I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity.
— James Lafferty
Nature, God, Buddha - someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I'm going to keep doing it.
— James Hong
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
— James Garner
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
— James Fenimore Cooper
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
— James E. Gunn
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
— James Dean
Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.
— James Cameron
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
— James Buchan
We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.
— James Balog
Sometimes checking that ball down is the simple decision. It's about moving the chains. It's about a completion here and a completion there. And that's how you know the game really slows down is when you're able to do that, when it's just second nature.
— Jameis Winston
The nature of television is that it's a beast with a lot of opinions. I don't consider myself typecast any more than Neil Patrick Harris was as Doogie Howser or James Gandolifini is as Tony Soprano.
— Jaleel White
A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.
— Jakob Bohme
I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
— Jake Owen
Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.
— James Payn
I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.
— James McBride
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
— James Madison
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
— James Lasdun
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
— James L. Buckley
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
— James Gleick
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
— James G. Frazer
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.
— James E. Faust
It's the nature often on social media that people say things without really thinking through their position.
— James Cleverly
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
— James Anthony Froude
Nature stopped being natural decades ago.
— Jamais Cascio
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
— Jakob Dylan
There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.
I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
— James Murphy
I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
— James McAvoy
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
— James Lovelock
People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.
— James Howard Kunstler
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.
At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.
— James Forman, Jr.
We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.
— James F. Amos
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
— James Dyson
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
— James Clavell
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
— James C. Maxwell
We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
— James Allen
Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.
We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.
When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.
— Jake Tapper
