Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

There is a spiritual Israel and a natural Israel. God is committed to both. Neither replaces the other.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced.

There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.

There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it also becomes sort of frightening. I guess that's how I see things, in that form of duality.

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness.

There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as men, should say so. Our business as women was to recognize this and act accordingly.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be nice to potential reciprocators. It would have been, Be nice to everybody, because everybody would have been included.

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.

The secret to tapping into the supernatural is for you to have the courage to do the natural first.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want to keep free from public surveillance, that's natural. Its shouldn't be but, its very natural.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.