Inherent Nature Quotes

What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.

In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.

You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.

The sexual impulse is to me neither a low degrading thing nor something extremely sacrosanct and holy. I regard it as a fundamentally normal, clean, lifeful instinct.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great.

I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.