Quotes of: Natural-ability Keyword

Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.

The Price of Creation

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects. -pg 129

Pandora in the Congo

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.

Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life

People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.

Pour the Oil

Animals and nature are known to open our hearts, calm us, and reduce blood pressure and stress.

The Power Of The Heart: Finding Your True Purpose

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

Pride and Prejudice

Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Pot-Bouille

A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart

Padidehaye Fekr: Manifestations of Thought

Just sayin' you got a hot nature, little girl. Quick to anger, quick to lust. Some people are just like that - hot-blooded.

Planet X

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Quicksilver

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet

The Rose That Grew from Concrete

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

A Treatise of Human Nature

If Twinkies grew on trees, as nature intended, then I would like to irrigate your fertile valley. When we make love, bring your own knitting equipment.

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