My Nature Quotes

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.
- Veronica Roth

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.
- Marian Anderson

I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
- Jane Austen

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not in my nature...The men think us incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference.
- Jane Austen

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.
- Jane Austen

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
- Oscar Wilde

What are you going to do? (Angelia)
I ought to rip your throat out. But lucky for you, I'm just a dumb animal and killing for revenge isn't in my nature. Killing to protect myself and those in my pack is another story. You'd do well to remember that. (Fury)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
- Albert Camus

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)
- Haruki Murakami

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
- Jayson Blair

A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting;
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more.
- William Shakespeare

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.
- Andre Braugher

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable
- Suzanne Collins

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
- Margaret Cavendish

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.
- Michael Chang

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.
- Jennifer Connelly

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
- Jack Dee

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
- Don Delillo

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.
- Rick Derringer

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
- Charles Dickens

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved
- Milan Kundera

It's your nature to be Tirin, and my nature to be Shevek, and our common nature to be Odonians, responsible to one another. And that responsibility is our freedom. To avoid it, would be to lose our freedom. Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
- Ursula K Le Guin

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
- Elizabeth I Tudor

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.
- Carol Emshwiller

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
- Robert Fulghum

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
- Paul Getty

My nature just changes.
- Jimi Hendrix

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
- Jimi Hendrix

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
- Julia Ward Howe

As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
- Bohumil Hrabal

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.
- Iris Johansen

I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.
- Christine Keeler

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
- Talib Kweli

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
- Bernhard Langer

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
- Ricky Martin

My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive.
- Cindy Martinusen Coloma

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
- James Mcavoy

I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man, although I have my moments of volatility and fou rire.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Of everything I have seen,
it's you I want to go on seeing:
of everything I've touched,
it's your flesh I want to go on touching.
I love your orange laughter.
I am moved by the sight of you sleeping.
What am I to do, love, loved one?
I don't know how others love
or how people loved in the past.
I live, watching you, loving you.
Being in love is my nature.
- Pablo Neruda

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
- Dawn Powell

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
- Anne Rice

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
- Anne Rice

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
- John Shirley

It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
- Sophocles

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
- Sophocles

... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.
- Neal Stephenson

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
- Taylor Swift

It is my nature to thin where others read.
- Thomas Sydenham

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.
- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.
- Conrad Veidt

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
- Jimmy Wales

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
- Cynthia Weil

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
- Ricky Williams