Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.


Brian Greene

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
GAVIN NEWSOM
I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourse...
EMILIA CLARKE
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
ALEXANDER POPE
I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT
I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
BLAISE PASCAL
A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept ...
MICHAEL FROME
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mat...
GRAHAM SWIFT
Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
ROBIN WILLIAMS
It had been like this forever, thought Domenic Jejeune. For a thousand years and more, men and women...
STEVE BURROWS
A charm of Goldfinches swooped in and settled on a stand of thistles, pecking at the down. It was a ...
STEVE BURROWS
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everyt...
SAMUEL PEPYS
Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we ac...
BRUCE LIPTON
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealo...
JILL SCOTT
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rap...
WARREN DE LA RUE
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL
Gossip is nature's telephone.
SHOLOM ALEICHEM
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the f...
ADRIAN CRONAUER
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in f...
MARLO THOMAS
Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
ROBERT BYRNE
The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY
Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It&...
GEOFFREY WEST
In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man ...
ROBERTO ORCI
The deer scent the wolves and stand silent and watchful. They turn and leap off like ballerinas, the...
KATHLEEN VALENTINE
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it&#...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.
CHEN GUANGCHENG
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and th...
JEFF TWEEDY
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDON
Giddy grasshopper
Take care...do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop
KOBAYASHI ISSA
Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now...
Waterfall music
BASHō MATSUO
It takes a special kind of personality to enjoy watching the grass grow.
FORREST PRITCHARD
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but th...
RICHARD LOUV
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
SYD BARRETT
Life is incomplete without understanding the language of the beauty of the flowers, rocks, fine moun...
AMIT RAY
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant...
DEB CALETTI
Open spaces sing to my heart
of the art of nature and the nature of art.
JAY WOODMAN
My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indiffe...
APRIL GORNIK
The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, t...
LARRY POONS
It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you...
NOAM CHOMSKY
It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
AL FRANKEN
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
DAVE BARRY
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
JULES VERNE
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADE
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
LIAM NEESON
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pret...
PETER SINGER
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creat...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
JOHN TRAVOLTA
I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
GARRY SHANDLING
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma...
MATTHEW DESMOND
It's human nature to want to be with other people.
ZOE LISTER-JONES
It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
MAGNUS CARLSEN
I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's...
HARMON KILLEBREW
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a perio...
JOHN MAYER
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytic...
EDWARD TUFTE
I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON
What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to...
JOEL SALATIN
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother'...
BECK
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of l...
MAHATMA GANDHI
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fl...
MICK JAGGER
I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows ...
TOM SHADYAC
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also ch...
HUGH JACKMAN
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
PETER USTINOV
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important...
MARGUERITE MOREAU
Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
ELIZABETH KENNY
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challe...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature&...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it...
PARKER POSEY
I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best trick...
BJORK
The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's...
TINO SEHGAL
The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
SAM KEAN
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
ALAN KING
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
WILLIAM C. BRYANT
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resour...
HERBERT A. SIMON
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING
People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.
DAVID BALDACCI
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
CARROT TOP
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come fr...
PAUL RYAN
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
ELVIS PRESLEY
At last came the golden month of the wild folk-- honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the ...
SAMUEL SCOVILLE JR.
The low early sunshine was streaming through the wood and the grass was grey with dew and the cobweb...
C.S. LEWIS
Your growing antlers,' Bambi continued, 'are proof of your intimate place in the forest, for of all ...
FELIX SALTEN
struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the h...
GARTH STEIN
Nature is amazing wonder.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
ভাসিয়ে দেবার প্রবণতা প্রকৃতির ভেতর আ�...
HUMAYUN AHMED
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE

More Brian Greene

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea...
BRIAN GREENE
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE
We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE
There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE
My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE
I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
BRIAN GREENE
When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the f...
BRIAN GREENE
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confus...
BRIAN GREENE
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
BRIAN GREENE
I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experi...
BRIAN GREENE
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just...
BRIAN GREENE
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extrao...
BRIAN GREENE
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually havi...
BRIAN GREENE
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from t...
BRIAN GREENE
In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, ...
BRIAN GREENE
Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions...
BRIAN GREENE
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
BRIAN GREENE
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my "Theorem".
BRIAN GREENE
Right now we are facing adversity, but we just have to stick together. We have a chance to play in t...
BRIAN GREENE
The observations are spectacular and the conclusions are stunning. It shows that galaxies are nothin...
BRIAN GREENE
Erin Baker provided the offensive spark we so desperately needed, ... She scored the first goal of t...
BRIAN GREENE
Being on the road and competing at such a high level will give us confidence going into league play ...
BRIAN GREENE
As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a u...
BRIAN GREENE
We don't abide by the SNIA definition for some specific reasons on the restore side of things. We fo...
BRIAN GREENE
Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a f...
BRIAN GREENE
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally exp...
BRIAN GREENE
Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanic...
BRIAN GREENE
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
BRIAN GREENE
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From ...
BRIAN GREENE
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enor...
BRIAN GREENE
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, th...
BRIAN GREENE
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever ...
BRIAN GREENE
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patte...
BRIAN GREENE
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is tha...
BRIAN GREENE
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were b...
BRIAN GREENE
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicis...
BRIAN GREENE
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum...
BRIAN GREENE
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general pub...
BRIAN GREENE
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was ra...
BRIAN GREENE
You don't have to search far to locate where the big bang occurred, for it took place where you are ...
BRIAN GREENE
There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own ...
BRIAN GREENE
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
BRIAN GREENE
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It sa...
BRIAN GREENE
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
BRIAN GREENE
We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.
BRIAN GREENE
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints ...
BRIAN GREENE
Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this ...
BRIAN GREENE
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us ...
BRIAN GREENE
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to...
BRIAN GREENE
...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notic...
BRIAN GREENE
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptis...
BRIAN GREENE
His father was a great guy and was always a good fan. He loved Duke football, and he loved his son, ...
BRIAN GREENE
We had guys in the past who wanted to win; now we have guys who expect to win. It's an attitude shif...
BRIAN GREENE
When I got here, there were a lot of guys who would lose a game, and then right after the game they'...
BRIAN GREENE
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsif...
BRIAN GREENE
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the pa...
BRIAN GREENE
It's just we've found a way to somehow do it to ourselves. And we've got to figure out a way to get ...
BRIAN GREENE
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and q...
BRIAN GREENE
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimen...
BRIAN GREENE
The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this fea...
BRIAN GREENE
I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were ...
BRIAN GREENE
Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of re...
BRIAN GREENE
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I...
BRIAN GREENE
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory....
BRIAN GREENE
Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE
I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE
I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE
If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE
I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they...
GRAHAM GREENE
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a brib...
GRAHAM GREENE
We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE
There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE
There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE
We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE
I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE
We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE
We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE
Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE
We want to bring to the attention of the government that the people are not very happy with the tax ...
ALAN GREENE
This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,
ALAN GREENE
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE
Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel l...
ASHLEY GREENE
I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' not...
ASHLEY GREENE
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it need...
GRAHAM GREENE
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unfor...
GRAHAM GREENE
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God bogg...
GRAHAM GREENE
I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone yo...
ASHLEY GREENE
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE
The chronic pain market will likely undergo a major sea change over the next few years and there are...
ADAM GREENE
We want to get people excited about VCP. And we want to encourage researchers to focus on things imp...
ADAM GREENE
We want to get people excited [about VCP]. And we want to encourage researchers to focus on things i...
ADAM GREENE
This slowdown is expected because they are exhausting their cost-savings from the merger. But their ...
ADAM GREENE
With AHP we'll be looking at everything, just like Pfizer.
ADAM GREENE
I'm very pleased. My boys worked hard, and even though they got down 1-0 early, they worked very har...
ADAM GREENE
I don't think we'll see too many surprises on the downside, as we're really in bargain basement terr...
ADAM GREENE
I think a lot of companies have already put expectations so low they haven't set them up for those m...
ADAM GREENE
It's actually been really great. The kids are fun to work with and the kids actually do listen to wh...
ADAM GREENE
In the first few games, we've found a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication.
ADAM GREENE
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly cho...
GRAHAM GREENE
You have to make it happen.
JOE GREENE
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
ROBERT GREENE
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamon...
GRAHAM GREENE
I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain...
GRAHAM GREENE
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't t...
GRAHAM GREENE
LAW 38
Think As You Like But Behave Like Others

If you make a show of going against ...
ROBERT GREENE
LAW 25
Re-Create Yourself

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-cre...
ROBERT GREENE
LAW 46
Never Appear Too Perfect

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, bu...
ROBERT GREENE
LAW 4
Always Say Less Than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with wo...
ROBERT GREENE
In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.
GRAHAM GREENE
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not agains...
GRAHAM GREENE
It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie ou...
GRAHAM GREENE
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There ...
GRAHAM GREENE
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of ...
GRAHAM GREENE
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE
Failure too is a form of death...
GRAHAM GREENE
His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
GRAHAM GREENE
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a ma...
GRAHAM GREENE
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning o...
GRAHAM GREENE
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
GRAHAM GREENE
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves again...
GRAHAM GREENE
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
NATHANAEL GREENE
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...
GRAHAM GREENE
Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
GRAHAM GREENE
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n...
GRAHAM GREENE
When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri...
GRAHAM GREENE
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be...
GRAHAM GREENE
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet ar...
ROBERT GREENE
Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the other...
GRAHAM GREENE
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or...
GRAHAM GREENE
Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
ROBERT GREENE
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
GRAHAM GREENE
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
VIVIAN GREENE
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was...
ROBERT GREENE
I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be ...
ASHLEY GREENE
It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horri...
ELLEN GREENE
I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, O...
ASHLEY GREENE
I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything n...
ASHLEY GREENE
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they p...
GRAHAM GREENE
Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE
In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel v...
ASHLEY GREENE
I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich'...
ASHLEY GREENE
I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like...
ASHLEY GREENE
...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE
I wouldn't say it's pressure it's more like a controlled nervousness. We've had a good season so far...
ANDY GREENE
Basically, they're all really good teams - you're talking about the 16 best teams in the country. Th...
ANDY GREENE
It's been electric here (at Goggin) all season, and we expect it to be the same way this weekend. We...
ANDY GREENE
I wouldn't say it's pressure — it's more like a controlled nervousn...
ANDY GREENE
Caruso played well tonight, as he always seems to do against us.
ANDY GREENE
I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but this is definitely a dream come true.
ANDY GREENE
I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but it is definitely a dream come true. I am looking forward...
ANDY GREENE
Innocence is a kind of insanity
GRAHAM GREENE
He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the ind...
GRAHAM GREENE
My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to ...
JOE GREENE
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothi...
GRAHAM GREENE
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE
The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for math...
GRAHAM GREENE
I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career polit...
JEFF GREENE
I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.
JEFF GREENE
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
ROBERT GREENE
Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relat...
ASHLEY GREENE
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
GRAHAM GREENE
As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we k...
JOE GREENE
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or ha...
JOE GREENE
I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to car...
NANCY GREENE
I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you c...
ASHLEY GREENE
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to loo...
GRAHAM GREENE
Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers.

ROBERT GREENE
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to m...
GRAHAM GREENE
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup an...
ROBERT GREENE