Quotes of: Natural-world Keyword

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Why Men Fight

Chance favors the connected mind.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Assassination Vacation

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

Robert Carlyle

If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.

Rosanne Cash

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Thomas Jefferson

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

Loren Eiseley

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Larry Niven

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

Mickey Mantle

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

R.A. Salvatore

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Markham Shaw Pyle

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

John Cale

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

Tia Mowry

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

William Weld

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

LZ Granderson

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

Nan Hayworth

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

Ai Weiwei

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Paul Ryan