Top 1200 Perfectly Natural Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard.

Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Style is to be simple.

But now mine own eyes have beheld God; but not my natural, but my spiritual eyes, for my natural eyes could not have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence; but his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before him.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fracking for natural gas. It is a lie that was bought into by a lot of Democrats and a lot of environmentalists because I think they wanted to have a win against something; against coal.

Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

With love, you don't mislead or play around, so if you're not perfectly clear, just be honest about it.

The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not given any doctrine, he has not given any catechism. He has simply explained one thing: that if you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and trees, you will blossom, you will have your wings open in the vast sky.

In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms. It can't be handled as you go out of that and go back into natural institutions or natural law or divine revelation. Something outside of the system has to tell you the system has gone wrong.

I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she's not going to get it from me because she hasn't earned it. But I've been basically lucky because I've mostly met nice girls - and that's what attracts me.

The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.

I'm one of the old crabby types and younger people are perfectly happy with everything that goes on.

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

Unfortunately, 'How You Remind Me' is the song most perfectly suited to my voice.

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical.

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

I'm perfectly fine with Pacquiao the Christian wanting to separate Mayweather from his senses.

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.

Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in which we readers see ourselves. The natural world is the place into which all my characters have to situate themselves in order to be who they really are, and that makes my rural fiction feel different from a lot of urban fiction.

We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.

This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing, through a two- to four-octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought he or she experiences.

Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but they forge a talent through thousands of hours of what's known as deliberate practice or deliberate performance.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

My hair looks so good out in the desert, it's unbelievable. It's, like, perfectly not frizzy.