My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.
— Vonda Shepard
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
— Voltaire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
— Vitruvius
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
— Virgil
Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.
— Virat Kohli
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
— Vikram Seth
Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.
— Viggo Mortensen
As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.
— Victoria Osteen
The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.
— Victoria Coren Mitchell
Being competitive is in my nature. I actually think being competitive saved my life. It's given me the constant drive to be better, and when I was in that hospital bed and that wheelchair, it made me want to get better.
— Victoria Arlen
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
— Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
My nature is to worry about everything too much.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.
— Vladimir Prelog
The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.
— Vivian Campbell
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
— Virginia Woolf
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.
— Virchand Gandhi
If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
— Vinoba Bhave
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.
— Vincent Bugliosi
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
Kolaigaran' is not a typical hero-villain subject. We explored the other side of human nature, which is grey.
— Vijay Antony
I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators.
— Viet D. Dinh
Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
— Victoria Moran
I'm not a luddite. Science, computers, medicine, they're all great. But nature is context. That which we can't control. Its constant mortality and immortality is an answer to the terror of finite existence. It reassures the soul.
If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.
— Victor LaValle
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war - the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.
— Viv Albertine
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.
— Vinnie Jones
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
— Viktor Orban
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
— Victoria Pendleton
Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
— Victoria Gotti
Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don't know the reason. Some people say it's to do with keeping rain out of monkeys' eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign your eyebrows with tweezers and pens, it will look terrible.
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
