Living On The Edge

Colors are the smiles of nature. - Leigh Hunt

The view only changes for the lead dog. - Norman O. Brown

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. - Mark Twain

A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view. - Ron Sexsmith

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

The power which resides in him is new in nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. - Cyril Connolly

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - John Le Carre

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses. - Edwin L Cole

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better. - Ricky Gervais

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. - Anatole France

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

Nature never makes any blunders. When she makes a fool she means it. - Archibald Alexander

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. - Walter Winchell

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. - Mahatma Gandhi

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. - Carrot Top

Making mistakes reveals human nature. How one deals with them reveals character. - Unknown

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

It is not human nature that we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. - Denis Diderot

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. - Alan Ladd

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. - Sophia Loren

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. - Warfield Theobald Longcope

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. - Plato

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. - Harvey Cushing

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. - Robertson Davies

Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, and sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn't. - April M. Monterrosa

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. - Nicholas de Belleville