Top 1200 Perfectly Natural Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable features that so wonderfully equip them for survival and reproduction; it is this theory that accounts for the divergence of species from common ancestors and thus for the endless diversity of life. Natural selection is a simple concept, but it is perhaps the most important idea in biology.

Perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them. Ha! A small matter.

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

When I was doing mainly music, I used to stick a microphone out the window, into the countryside, and create a live mix. I wanted to put air in electronic music. I record the sounds of twigs, barks, and stones. I've always been obsessed with the idea of combining the natural and the man-made. It's not because I think the technology is crap, or that I'm trying to work against it, but that juxtaposition is truly beautiful. The question of what is natural and unnatural is very open.

With its emphasis on star power, the Obama campaign from Day One emphasized the candidate's perfectly cut presidential presence.

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".

I tell myself that my body is not robotic and it doesn't behave perfectly, and... things can go wrong that are out of your control.

In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We do not, of course, know all these laws yet, but I believe that such laws exist. I do not, therefore, believe in the literal truth of some miracles which are featured in the Christian Scriptures, such as the Virgin Birth or water into wine. ... God works, I believe, within natural laws, and, according to natural laws, these things happen.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.

Very rarely can you bring someone new into a band and have them just fit perfectly, right away.

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

Well, everybody's human, and you're not going to do the right thing perfectly every time. But you mess up and you learn from it and you go on from there.

Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.

No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone." "I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.

When you're juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give - and, for me, it's living in a perfectly tidy home.

That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.