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"How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!" »anonymous
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"Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo." »George Bernard Shaw
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"natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study." »Francis Bacon
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"natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation." »Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death"
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"China and Africa have strong growing relationship; as China continues to grow, we will see the Chinese offer more infrastructure development to African governments in return for natural resources and farmland to support its vast population. It is a natural and mutually beneficial relationship." »Med Jones
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"natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Cicero
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"Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The
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"The unnatural, that too is natural." »Johann von Goethe
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"Being natural is simply a pose." »Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
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"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up." »Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"
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"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?" »Bette Midler
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"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so." »La Rochefoucauld
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"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon
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"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law" »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich
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"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." »Lisa Hoffman
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"Children are our most valuable natural resource." »Herbert Clark Hoover
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"Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience." »Thomas Haliburton
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"It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon
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"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." »Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Center
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"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy." »Steve Martin
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"History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between." »Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
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"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs." »Mark Twain
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"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." »Unknown
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"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough." »Mark Twain
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"Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought." »Hazlitt
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"I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly." »Martin Luther
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