Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

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

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 make me feel like a natural man

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

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

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.

Again burst out that chant McKay had heard as he had floated through the mists upon the lake. Now, as then, despite his opened ears, he could distinguish no words, but clearly he understood its mingled themes - the joy of Spring's awakening, rebirth, with the green life streaming singing up through every bough, swelling the buds, burgeoning with tender leaves the branches; the dance of the trees in the scented winds of Spring; the drums of the jubilant rain on leafy hoods; passion of Summer sun pouring its golden flood down upon the trees; the moon passing with stately step and slow and green hands stretching up to her and drawing from her breast milk of silver fire; riot of wild gay winds with their mad pipings and strummings; - soft interlacing of boughs, the kiss of amorous leaves - all these and more, much more that McKay could not understand for it dealt with hidden, secret things for which man has no images. ("The Women Of The Woods")

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

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.

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

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

[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.

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

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?

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...

A man who is depleted by worry is he who natural immunity is reduced

A mistake that a lot of people make, and I’ve been guilty of this as well, is that we assume that just because something is natural it is therefore safe, and ergo, good for us. I like to point out that cobras are natural too, but I don’t want to kiss one.

A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human spirit are united.

Anarchism is the purity of rebellion. A pig who struggles wildly and rends the air with his cries while he is held to be slaughtered, and a baby who kicks and screams when, wanting warmth and his mother's breast, he is made to wait in the cold—these are two samples of natural rebellion. Natural rebellion always inspires either deep sympathy and identification with the rebelling creature, or a stiffening of the heart and an activation of aggressive-defensive mechanisms to silence an accusing truth. This truth is that each living being is an end in itself; that nothing gives a being the right to make another a mere instrument of his purposes.