Natural famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable
-- Ada Lovelace -
I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
-- Adam Sandler -
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.Â
-- Adyashanti -
It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have
-- Alan Ladd -
That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
-- Alan Parsons -
artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity
-- Albert Einstein -
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
-- Albertus Magnus -
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
-- Alexander Theroux -
It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
-- Alexis Arguello -
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.
-- Alfred Bester -
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.
-- Alia Shawkat -
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
-- Alice Walker -
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.
-- Allan Bloom -
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
-- Andre Gide -
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
-- Anne Lamott -
The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.
-- Anne Rice -
Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.
-- Anton Webern -
Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that he has already judged that people judge others.
-- Anuj -
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.
-- Aretha Franklin -
Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.
-- Ariel Garten -
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
-- Aristotle -
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
-- Aristotle -
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
-- Arnold Palmer -
I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.
-- Art Spiegelman -
Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.
-- Arthur Peacocke -
A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to savingly trust in a Divine object.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.
-- Aubrey McClendon -
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
-- Aubrey McClendon -
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
-- Barry Commoner -
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
-- Barry Diller -
It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
-- Ben Elton -
Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
-- Bernie Worrell -
Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.
-- Betty Dodson -
There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.
-- Bhumibol Adulyadej -
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.
-- Bill Ford -
The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.
-- Bill Nye -
It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.
-- Bill Shankly -
So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
-- Bill Vaughan -
This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation
-- Billy Collins -
I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.
-- Billy Crystal -
Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.
-- Billy Graham -
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
-- Blaise Pascal -
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
-- Boris Pasternak -
By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.
-- Brad Pitt -
When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.
-- Brady Anderson -
As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.
-- Brandon Boyd -
You cannot have sex education without saying that sex is natural and that most people find it pleasurable.
-- Bruno Bettelheim -
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.
-- Bryce Courtenay -
They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.
-- Buster Keaton -
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.
-- Byron Katie -
No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.
-- C.P. Snow -
I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
-- Callan McAuliffe -
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
What I love about him [Robert Rodriguez] is that he understands that actors are transformational. It's a natural instinct to ask people to do what you've seen them do before. Until you see someone do something new, you don't know what they can.
-- Carla Gugino -
I'm really into natural and organic products.
-- Chanel Iman -
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
-- Charles Bukowski -
American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
-- Charles Bukowski -
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
-- Charles Darwin -
Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection
-- Charles Darwin -
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
-- Charles Darwin -
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
-- Charles Dickens -
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
-- Charles James Fox -
Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
-- Chelsea Clinton -
I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.
-- Chris Hayes -
I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.
-- Chris Isaak -
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.
-- Christabel Pankhurst -
natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.
-- Christiane Northrup -
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
-- Chuck Yeager -
I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
-- Clarence Clemons