Quotes of: Natural-order Keyword

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Whoopi Goldberg

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Willie Stargell

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

William Howard Taft

And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently -- or, to state it another way, it may mean interacting with more-than-human others in nature as if those oth...

Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature

I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the praise which sounded in my ears, notwithstanding that I was keenly aliv...

David Copperfield

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases ...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray, contrives to stir up these motions of impurity in its nature; and if the so...

Dark Night of the Soul

Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and gener...

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

We try to show that the well-ordered society of justice as fairness is indeed possible according to our nature and those requirements. This endeavor belongs to political philosophy as reconciliation; for seeing that the conditions of a social world a...

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same through all time; for these forces are based on the very nature of matter, and could not have changed. The ocean has always had its wave...

Manual of Geology

It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who are too cunning to fight their own battles-in short to defend not himself but p...

Stand on Zanzibar

Culture is not trivial. It is not a decoration or artifice, the songs we sing or even the prayers we chant. It is a blanket of comfort that gives meaning to lives. It is a body of knowledge that allows the individual to make sense out of the infinite...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

The starting point of 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species which morphologists for the most part rightly neglect. The first condition necessary, in order that any proce...

Karl Pearson

God ordered the world and all things in it, and I ordered a pizza and all things on it.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

To order a wife by mail seemed strange to him indeed; so strange he could only open the letters in the confidential cloak of night, undisturbed by even the servants..." Lord Hartford's thoughts at the prospect of reading letters in response to his ad...

To Find a Duchess

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,

America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 2: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989

Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. "My gran's going do kill be," said Neville thickly, blood spattering from his nose as he spoke, "dat was by dad's old wand...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Yeah,” said Harry. “No more pretending we care what happens when Jupiter and Uranus get too friendly . . .” “And from now on, I don’t care if my tea leaves spell — I’m just chucking them in the bin where they belong.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Mi ero troppo affezionato a te" spiegò Silente con semplicità. "Tenevo più alla tua felicità che a farti conoscere la verità,più alla tua serenità che al mio piano.Ho agito esattamente come Voldemort si aspetta che agiscano gli sciocchi in gra...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix