A Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Commonplace Depend Nothing Unnatural

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Arthur Conan Doyle
British - Writer
May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

Frederick William Robertson

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

Don DeLillo

You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.

Joe Hisaishi

There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.

Kristin Cashore

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

John Banville

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Aristotle

Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

Ted Dekker

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

William Shakespeare

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

Gelsey Kirkland

There's nothing unnatural in creation.

Wadada Leo Smith

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

Blaise Pascal

So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked.