Some people are naturally brave. Others, like me, learn to fake it. I still had no idea if faked bravery and real bravery were the same thing.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

LOL could go and take a running jump. I wasn’t made for illiteracy; it simply didn’t come naturally.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one

Acting isn’t that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

I played in different positions as a kid, and it helped me learn different parts of the game, but I found that I was always scoring goals, and that continued as I got older. I’ve always enjoyed scoring, and it seemed to come naturally. Fortunately, that has carried on into my professional career.

I have had to work really hard at white-ball cricket. It doesn’t come naturally to me, I was a slow batsman; I worked hard on my game and fitness.

I have always enjoyed keeping wickets, as it is something that comes very naturally to me.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government… it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance, also the lives of men

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too

Consciousness is nature’s nightmare.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person… always have been. I have to say that it’s important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk – even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Their poor skills in arms make us quite dominant naturally.

You only need to ask whether they have it or not. You will not hear a no; sharing is in their nature.

I was naturally aggressive.

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

A girl can dazzle – just naturally!

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

If you do not pray except when you feel like praying, you will not pray much, nor pray when you most need it.

It’s the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

This will not be easy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible…Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

The acknowledgment comes naturally for those who deserve it.

Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge anyone to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon

The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including, consequently, those which one believed to be least possible, naturally slow at times, is rendered slower still by our desire.

Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life!

Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil’s sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad, the prerogative of the wicked.