Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
All flowers are not to be picked; some are meant to stay rooted so their beauty may continue to sing praises unto nature.
Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
We could eliminate sugar across the board for all confectionary products and sodas, and we can replace it with all-natural fresh fruit.
More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
Our Higher Self: The part of us that is connected to nature and also humanity" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
With their bright color and fantastic balance of acidity and sweetness, tomatoes are a natural refresher and the perfect element for meals on warm and sultry days.
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.
Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit... Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
