Top 1200 Perfectly Natural Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them. Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science.

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

One thing is perfectly clear: We don't need another China crony in the White House!

The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.

Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.

I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy to the earth's flora and fauna, and I do seriously believe that, given the extraordinary complexity of the natural forces controlling our climate, which have done so for millions of years, the only sensible policy response to the natural process of climate change is prudent and cost-effective adaptation.

Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

I don't think there are many jobs that would have tempted me away from Fulham, to be perfectly honest.

The manager wants to show his tactics, and if I do them perfectly, he'll pick me.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

To be perfectly honest with you, I think that The Darkness is a joke, and that's, unfortunately, exactly what the world wants.

I have to play everything just perfectly. I can't take less of myself. I'm strong. I'm prepared.

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do.

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.

I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you're not a vampire.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

I think it's quite natural as an actor to compare yourself to how well other people are doing and how other people might've played that role you auditioned for. There's a lot of comparison you can do as an actor, which is natural, because it's a competitive industry. However, we're all individuals, so you can only ever be yourself.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard.

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

I'm a natural baritone, so I had challenges in that middle range, which would be that tenor area, singing in my natural voice. And I worked on that. But basically the falsetto thing, I didn't even know it was a falsetto until a music teacher commented on it, that I had a very nice falsetto. I didn't even know what it was. I said, 'Oh, OK.'

I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.