And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
— Elizabeth Appell
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
— Elisha Gray
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
— Elihu Root
The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
— Elie Metchnikoff
To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
— Elias James Corey
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
— Elias Hicks
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
— Egon Schiele
You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
— Edwin Louis Cole
If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.
— Edward Zwick
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
— Edward Witten
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
— Edward Tufte
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
— Edward Thorndike
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
— Edward Hopper
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
— Eliza Haywood
I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.
— Elisha Cuthbert
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.
— Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.
— Eleanor Catton
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
— Edwin Way Teale
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The course of Nature is the art of God.
— Edward Young
If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
— Edward Steichen
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
— Edward Hall
I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the non-profit in Uganda, my mother is the president, and she was an African politics professor for almost 50 years, so I think people know that I align myself with people who know what they're talking about.
— Eliza Dushku
People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.
— Elise Andrew
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
— Eleonora Duse
People are always trying to figure me out, given the varied nature of my films and shows.
— Ekta Kapoor
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
— Edwin Booth
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
— Edward Jenner
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
