Nature Takes Its Course Quotes

#1. The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. - Voltaire

William Owens

#2. When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,

Bob Marshall

#3. First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place ...

Hippocrates

#4. Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#5. I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy.

Tom Hanks

#6. Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

Damon Galgut

#7. There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Andy Goldsworthy

#8. To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

James Randi

#9. If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.

Rosanne Cash

#10. Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

Laozi

#11. Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.

Andrew Murray

#12. It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

Dan Colen

#13. My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.

Steve Kimock

#14. The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.

Plotinus

#15. Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

Paul Cezanne

#16. Experience and miracle are two agents crafted with different names and meanings, yet express the exact same nature. It takes a miracle to gap experience. It takes experience to close the wall of a miracle. In the end, the only real difference ... is skill.

Lionel Suggs