Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Women are natural anarchists...

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Yeah, well. I don’t try to be awesome. It just comes natural.

Yoga is a natural thing.

You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.

You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible.

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

You cannot have sex education without saying that sex is natural and that most people find it pleasurable.

You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.

You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.

You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

You don't always find yourself facing audiences who are smiling the whole time. This is natural. As a speaker it is vital to prepare well and believe in what you have to say. You can't please every person in every crowd, but your message can matter much more than if you were only aiming to entertain.

You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

You make me feel like a natural man

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.

You kill, it's part of your world as a bullfighter, it's a natural part of your world, and then you leave that world and it becomes unnatural.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting with it yourself. This is just part of the work of becoming who you are, where you are.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

Your natural decisions are the decisions that are going to be good.

A hint of jealously once in a while is not only natural but a compliment therefore, always smile and accept it graciously for it shows they care...

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

A broken vessel cannot hold anything within itself, therefore only something supernatural can hold itself within a broken vessel.

Lyell and Poulett Scrope, in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton; and the former, aided by a marvellous power of clear exposition, placed upon an irrefragable basis the truth that natural causes are competent to account for all events, which can be proved to have occurred, in the course of the secular changes which have taken place during the deposition of the stratified rocks. The publication of 'The Principles of Geology,' in 1830, constituted an epoch in geological science. But it also constituted an epoch in the modern history of the doctrines of evolution, by raising in the mind of every intelligent reader this question: If natural causation is competent to account for the not-living part of our globe, why should it not account for the living part?

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.