In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
