All Quotes

The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.
‐‐ Michael O'Brien

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
‐‐ Samuel Adams

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.
‐‐ Terry Hayes

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.
‐‐ George Muller

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.
‐‐ Vinoba Bhave

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.
‐‐ Mary Douglas

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
‐‐ Nick Hornby

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
‐‐ Ashley Montagu

The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
‐‐ Joe Henderson

The natural world is not indestructible.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
‐‐ Edith Pearlman

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.
‐‐ Rick Bass

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
‐‐ Edward Forbes

The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
‐‐ John Burroughs

The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
‐‐ Owain Yeoman

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.
‐‐ Franz Kline

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.
‐‐ Simon Winchester

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.
‐‐ Bob Saget

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
‐‐ Iain McGilchrist

The nature of fashion is family.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
‐‐ James Lasdun

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
‐‐ Empedocles

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about.
‐‐ Jeh Johnson

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
‐‐ Ben Folds

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.
‐‐ Deb Caletti

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.
‐‐ Tino Sehgal

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.
‐‐ Roger Mahony

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
‐‐ Giambattista Vico

The nature of rumor is known to all.
‐‐ Tertullian

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
‐‐ Tom Arnold

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.
‐‐ Bill Hader

The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.
‐‐ Tracy Letts