Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Performing is great, but you are exposed to all this extra stuff that you don't have to deal with when you stop. I'm getting used to it now, but it's kind of just the fallout. It's really weird. It's not a natural situation to be in. It sounds like moaning, because I know that's what I'm supposed to do, and I'm not moaning.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Rejection is the natural course of things.

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

"Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Sehwag shall be remembered for his explosive and natural cricketing skills. Wish him all success on his birthday.

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.