Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

Innocent droplets of rain make almost all events quite natural.

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

In our natural Adamic state, we are not on our sick beds. We are in the grave.

In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.

In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

I really wanted my creams to feel luxurious and have a beautiful finish, and it's harder to do that with natural ingredients.

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.