When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.
— Jaggi Vasudev
I never really put nature into my record, but I think environment is important, and I think environment has an effect on your person.
— Jade Bird
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
— Jacques Lipchitz
National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.
— Jacques Chirac
Americans are defined by a history of immigration in pursuit of freedom and opportunity. We are more individualistic, enterprising, and protective of liberties that most Europeans do not expect, such as owning guns, working 70-hour weeks, or appreciating nature as it goes by at 60 mph on a snowmobile.
— Jacob Weisberg
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
— Jacob Bronowski
At first it was a bit surreal playing in the Premier League at 16, coming up against world-class players, because it had always been my dream. But quickly, it becomes second nature to you.
— Jack Rodwell
There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
— Jack Layton
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
— Jack Kingston
I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
— Jack Dee
I boxed a lot as a kid, so it's something that comes second nature to me.
— J. R. Ramirez
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
— J. Paul Getty
We are not by nature cruel.
— J. M. Coetzee
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.
— J. C. Chandor
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
— Ivan Turgenev
True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.
— Ivan Krastev
What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
— Jacques Lacan
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
— Jacqueline Bisset
I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.
— Jacob Lusk
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
— Jack Nicklaus
You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
— Jack LaLanne
There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
— Jack Dangermond
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
— J. P. Donleavy
'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
— J. G. Ballard
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
— Izaak Walton
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
— Itay Talgam
Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
— Jacques Perrin
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
— Jacques Ellul
The youth of the ANC, ever since 1944 when it was established, has been very vocal. It has made suggestions on things so that, at times, old people said, 'What are you doing?' That is its nature. Alliance partners, they have always raised issues. In fact, that is what brings vibrancy in the alliance. People misread that as huge fights.
— Jacob Zuma
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
— Jacki Weaver
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
— Jack London
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
— Jack Kroll
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
— Jack Herer
As a defender it can also be more frustrating to play in Italy because referees do not tolerate too much physical contact. I loved the physical nature of the game in England, but in Serie A I only have to look at a player and they sometimes fall to the floor!
— Jaap Stam
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
— J. C. Ryle
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
— Ivan Pavlov
