Perfectly Natural Quotes

• Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

  Sue Johanson

  Sex, Positive Relationship, Enjoyable

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• I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

  John Elder Robison

  Aspergers, Normal, Eyeballs

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• Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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• Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Chinese, World

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• Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

  William Daniel Phillips

  Christian, Religious, People

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• I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.

  Bill Nighy

  Hard Times, Thinking, Giving

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• Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Drama, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.112, Penguin

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• A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Father, Writing

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• The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

  Agnes Repplier

  Book, Giving, Principles

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

  Melissa Bank

  Doubt, Judgment, Natural

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.86, Penguin

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• About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

  Steve Yegge

  Ideas, Squares, Design

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• Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

  R. D. Laing

  Insanity, Independence, Negative

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• Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Keys, Talking

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• It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic.

  William Wharton

  Eye, Two, Water

  William Wharton (1980). “Birdy”, Avon Books

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• Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

  Elvis Costello

  Sound, Odd, Harmony

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• Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

  Jean Webster

  Likes, Surprise, Craving

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.64, Jester House Publishing

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• A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Men, Views

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

  Dov Davidoff

  Reactions, Human Condition, Humans

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• It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

  Moby

  Spiritual, Practice, Drunk

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

  David Ignatow

  Falling In Love, Tree, Guilt

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• If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Teacher, Thinking

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.

  Joseph McCabe

  Order, Giving, Heaven

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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• I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Thinking, Unusual, Following

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• We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.

  Seth Shostak

  Sight, Bus Stops, Years

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• If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

  Timothy Keller

  Strong, Atheist, Judging

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.45, Penguin

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