Quotes of: Natural-disaster Keyword

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

Daily Drive 365

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

Dune

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

The Diary of a Country Priest

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

Desert Solitaire

Stuck in high school for the rest of my natural life. Talk about hell.

The Dark World

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

The Etched City

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it's hard not to get a jump on it yourself.

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

Erewhon

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

The Essays: A Selection

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

English Traits

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

Exchange

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

A Feast for Crows

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Flaubert's Parrot

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

A Fine and Private Place

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

Frankenstein

What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.

The God Box

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

The Great Divorce

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

Green Darkness

While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

G is for Gumshoe

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

Goldfinger