Natural Things Quotes - Page 4

• an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

  Anne Rice

  Natural, Intoxication, Forbidden

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.710, Ballantine Books

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• The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Men, Weakness

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• The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

  Truman Capote

  Average, Years, Personality

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.58, Vintage

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• If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Odds, Law

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.349, Random House

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• Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Jesus, Healing, Miracle

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• He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

  Rick Yancey

  Confused, Sharks, Aftermath

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.385, Penguin

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• Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

  Isaac Newton

  Ideas, Diversity, Atheism

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

  Dan Wells

  Thinking, Impossible Things, World

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Falling In Love, Falling For You, Giving

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.354, Random House

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• Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

  Stephen Fry

  Coffee, Book, Reading

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• . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Love, Flower, Animal

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”

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• I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

  Gertrude Stein (1969). “Narration: four lectures”

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• The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Silence, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Two, Depth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Causes, Razors

  1687 Newton's First Rule of Reasoning in Philosophy. Philosophiae Naturalis PrincipiaMathematica (translated by Andrew Motte,1729).

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• It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

  Hugh Leonard

  Book, People, Waiting

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• Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Thinking, Anxiety, Mind

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• People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don’t normally do, but I think that’s just a natural thing for artists. It’s like, "Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this."

  Kristen Wiig

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Interview with Katy Perry, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

  William James

  Political, Politics, Natural

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.11, Library of America

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• I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Stupid

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Sep 11, 2014

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• You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

  Thierry Henry

  Winning, Years, Want

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• For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

  Stella McCartney

  Singing, World, Natural

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• I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Moving, Fighting

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• There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural things [than mathematics]. [It interprets] all phenomena by the same language, as if to attest the unity and simplicity of the plan of the universe, and to make still more evident that unchangeable order which presides over all natural causes

  Joseph Fourier

  Simple, Errors, Order

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• Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Government, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.55, Graphic Arts Books

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