Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don’t (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner .

I am every day more convinced that we are all, by nature, equal.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

The nature of legislation and the pronunciation of laws are matters of the greatest weight and importance to the community. On these is generally considered to rest the well-being or suffering of nations.

Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.

Lanny, climbing the hill, carried a thought which by now had become his familiar companion: Why, oh, why did men have to make their lives so ugly? What evil spell was upon them that they wrangled and scolded, hated and feared? He.

I like when things progress naturally. I hate when things are forced.

I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

When you’re doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or discard life just as life happens to promise great pleasure or pain.

People say, ‘You slide too much.’ I try to change a bit, just to see the difference, and it’s very bad. The faster and easier thing is to slide. To me, it’s a gift, it’s natural. It may be different, but I’m me.

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say ‘we,’ I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

I’m not a guy who has that kind of natural charisma, and I knew if I was going to be successful, I was going to have to make myself memorable.

I admire natural, untouched beauty.

I’ve been successful when I have kept things simple – playing cricketing shots that I’m blessed with or I am good at playing.

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion

A government of our own is our natural right.

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.”

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

I’m a natural. That’s why I make the big bucks.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

Montserrat Caballé is sensational. She has that same kind of emotion as Aretha Franklin. The way she delivers a song is so very natural.

I don’t see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don’t see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart’s drama and the negative meaning of history.

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It’s simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

We’d love to show the natural side of 4Minute.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless

The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we’ve done, I think it’s just sort of natural that each one hasn’t necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

The way a top team develops means that once you have won the league title, the natural step is to try to win the Champions League.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

Peace is your natural state. It is your mind that destroys it.

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement – that is to say, in duration.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

I pack a toothbrush, toothpaste, and deodorant. That’s it. I don’t have the time or patience for anything else. I’m a natural kind of guy. I don’t style my hair – never learned how.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

I would say natural is the best way to describe the real me. I’m not always going out or dressed up like I am on the red carpet. On a normal day, I wear normal clothes and wear little to no make-up. I’m always a bit girly, though.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

And in a response to an interrogator from the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1948, Chaplin said,

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don’t fly. Eagles don’t swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don’t have feathers. Stop comparing. There’s plenty of room in the forest.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

I guess I am not naturally energetic. I like to sit around and talk.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives

Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.

One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift and steady.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind

Such a natural mystic, blowing through the air.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

We don’t know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.

I saw but one glaring truth: These are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution-peace.

I love Thanksgiving turkey… It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant – and the success will naturally follow

God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, 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.

It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.

It’s a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I’m happy she’s out of pain, ’cause I love her and she’s my friend.

Not many people know this about me, but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself, but the winds fall upon me with their gusts and gales, and lash me into a fury that is not natural to me.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

All that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel mother

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.