Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.

When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

While the tendency to generate ideas is rather natural, the path to making them happen is tumultuous.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

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.

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.

Women are natural anarchists...

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

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

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

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

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 cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.

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.

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

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.

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.

Yeah, well. I don’t try to be awesome. It just comes natural.

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

Yoga is a natural thing.

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

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

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 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 make me feel like a natural man