Commanding Nature Quotes

#1. At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

Hugh Nibley

#2. We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

Voltaire

#4. So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Will Durant

#5. If you can't handle the answer, then don't ask the question.

T.A. Uner

#6. [When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.

John Herschel

#7. The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.

Phillip Connors

#8. First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

Alyssa Milano

#9. There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

Gwen Ifill

#10. But Cal," Jem protested, "you don't look even near as old as Atticus."
"Colored folks don't show their ages so fast," she said.

Harper Lee

#11. I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

John Gimlette

#12. Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.

Peter Tieryas

#13. Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

Octavia Butler

#14. May the Lord grant you wisdom to live wisely.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment.

Jesse L. Martin

#16. We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

Charles Koch

#17. The still small voice of gratitude.

Thomas Gray