Unnatural Quotes - Page 10

• I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.

  Al Pacino

  Iraq, Weight, Kind

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• I think some dogs may like the attention of being dressed up by their humans because they interpret it as affection, but unless it's something that you've made the dog used to from the time it was a puppy, it's probably going to always feel a little weird and unnatural to the dog. This doesn't mean I think people should never dress their dogs up as long as they do it for the right reasons. If you're putting booties and a coat on your dog to protect it from the weather, then that's a pretty legitimate reason.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't mind talking about a football game - that's fine. I don't want Christians to be unnatural. But I do want to hear them talking fully, freely and naturally of the things of the Lord in their own lives too.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Football, Talking

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• If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Intellectual, Trying, Actors

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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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• There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our brains because we were going to write everything down and not have to remember anything, and so it would atrophy our brains. So there has always been this human drive on the one hand to create tools, to create technologies to overcome our boundaries, but then there is always this reservation, and this fear that say these technologies are somehow unnatural and it is against nature to partake in them.

  Jason Silva

  Writing, Technology, Hands

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• Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Natural, Graves

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  Walt Disney

  Jobs, Animal, Disney Animation

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• Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Two

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• I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Atheism, Reign, Strife

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1266, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Long, Perfect, Would Be

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• The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mother, Eye, Son

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.23

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• Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sleep, Done, Contagious

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• How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!

  May Sarton

  Passion, Love Is, Views

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

  Carolyn Wells

  Nature

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• We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Waiting, Missing

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• A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

  John Dryden

  Character, Farce, Action

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• A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

  Robert Southey

  Marriage, Men, Thinking

  Robert Southey (1856). “Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey”, p.258

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• You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

  Edmund Burke

  Thinking, Superstitions, Should

  Edmund Burke (1847). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.531

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• For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Race, Humanity

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way.

  CM Punk

  Talking, Wind, Stuff

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Knives, Gossip, Potatoes

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

  Florence King

  Party, People, Political

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.191, Macmillan

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• of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.

  Zelda Popkin

  Loneliness, Heart, Dark

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