Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

We all have supernatural powers, but have not been educated on how to use them. That is why they are called SUPER-NATURAL. They are already super NATURAL to US!

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty

Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

We are born to give; even though we are indoctrinated throughout our lives differently this simply is not what science tells us. It does seem that our natural state is to help others so I guess our goal is to find that natural state within ourselves.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

We forget that stretch marks, cellulite and some stomach fat is natural. We forget that we are born human and physically can't be perfect. We forget that God doesn't make us out of plastic and silicone. We forget to be flawed.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

We have within us enormous reserves of trapped potential. Our natural urges have been so constrained by the accommodations of living that we each have a smoldering volcano just below the surface. To enable this force to erupt in a healthy, open, and positive manner is a momentous act.

We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.

Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um, a lot of things... a lot of things from the experience... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

We're really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That's from experience.

We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget the giver. Then our gaze shifts from what we have been given to what we dont have yet. . . .

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

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.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

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.