Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.

When humans understand Tao, we understand the Tao within ourselves, not the true Tao. Tao doesn't belong to any one or any place; Tao is natural. It doesn't matter where you go, it will always be there. No one can claim ownership of it.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something.

When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

While the tendency to generate ideas is rather natural, the path to making them happen is tumultuous.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Women are natural anarchists...

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.