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Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear.

George Bernard Shaw

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Oscar Wilde

Being natural is simply a pose.

Oscar Wilde

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas H. Huxley

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Theodore Roosevelt

The music was human; the static was natural.

John Updike

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

Charles Darwin

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.

Walt Disney

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Sir Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Nelson Mandela

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

Albert Camus

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Robert Henri

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Albert Einstein

Pre-market trading is a natural extension of our commitment to offering customers tools and information that enhance their trading experience.

Lon Gorman

We don't have a (natural) 215-pounder. We can fill our lineup by juggling kids around. It's worked for us so far.

Rick Chaussard

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Ann Oakley

He taught us so much. His enthusiasm just bubbled out, it was natural with him.

Trevor Goddard

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Eric Hoffer

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

Lewis Thomas

This guy is a natural. He was born to be a great government executive. He makes things happen.

Michael Barnes

In New Mexico this year, we have no ski areas operating on natural snow.

Ron Curry

That location is a natural crown for the downtown. It's an ideal river crossing.

Ron Weaver

I think this is a natural place for this stem cell bank to be located.

Tom Still

It looks like a dilapidated roadside zoo. The animals have no enrichment of any kind. They are deprived of everything that's natural to them.

Lisa Wathne

This is the most natural partnership. The industries have been moving towards each other.

Andy Wilson

Nick is a tremendous athlete. Jesse's a natural runner.

Rick Roseman

Wool breathes. Its natural fibers keep the body temperatures even and it absorbs perspiration.

Roberta Kaplan

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Joan Baez

The Agency of Natural Resources has real concerns about it, the League of Cities and Towns has real concerns about it.

Sen. Susan Bartlett

The buzz on Reality so far is good. We know both consumers and advertisers love reality TV, and thought this channel would be a natural to attract clients.

Julie Nelson

Aidan's deep knowledge in helping to build global brands, along with his own experience as a founder and executive producer of a successful international TV event special made him a natural choice.

Steve Lipscomb

God's project of creation can be carried out through secondary causes in the natural course of events.

Fiorenzo Facchini

It felt more natural to me. You come off the ball, make plays, run and hit. That's one thing I like to do. This is a real good move.

Alonzo Horton

We are thrilled to add Blair to our program and he is a natural fit for us in 2006 as we were looking for a mature right shot.

Bob Daniels

I'm not thinking as much as I used to when I shoot. It's becoming more natural and more familiar.

Danielle Orsillo

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Thomas Shadwell

When I look at it individually, I think it's a natural progression -- coaching first base for the last four years [and] coaching third base in the Minor Leagues -- for me to go from first to third.

Demarlo Hale

When I came down to Hilton Head and saw all the natural beauty, I said, 'Good-bye barns, hello ocean, hello live oak trees.

Terry Brennan

Our thoughts and prayers will be with them during this deployment just as they are with the victims of this terrible natural disaster.

Frank Murkowski

We're living in a world where natural disasters are increasing, and the silent crises are increasing. It is difficult to choose between all of them.

Trevor Rowe

Lew cared deeply for H-P and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company. He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered.

Mark Hurd

Take care of your body, rehab it well and come back. It's fine and natural now.

Jason Hammel

It was a terrible natural disaster but an even greater human catastrophe.

Tom Morello

Washington, for all his huge talent, is a natural forward, and we have an abundance of forwards in our team.

Lito Alvarez

The point that has to be made is that national disasters are, in the aggregate, predictable, and we can budget for them, ... Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America.

Theodore Steinberg

Tosh is a natural. He has comic skills that you rarely see. It's a gift; you either have it or you don't.

Becky Fly

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them, ... There is no reason to go backwards in redesigning the city.

Paul Hawken

Connie is a beautiful woman, and we were just trying to keep her natural.

Bob Ryan

The problem lies in interpretation. A nude should be accepted for its face value — an exploration of the human form in all its natural glory.

Greg Gorman

A number of Western borrowers and investors have indicated to us that they see Islamic finance as a natural alternative to conventional finance.

John Weguelin

She came here with nothing. I would love to take credit for her, but she's a natural.

Tim Bowman

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

James Thomson

Vince is a natural athlete. I think he opened up a lot of eyes last summer.

Mark Foulkes

Don't block my natural drainage.

Pete Lawler

If it's natural, it's going to be better for you because it's not an outside something coming in to mess things up.

Betsy Mitchell

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Ludwig Borne

We're interested in trying to protect certain key natural values in the landscape and make sure that the land will be there for our children and our children's children.

Doug Hall

There's so much demand, and it's clearly the result of a sharp increase in the number of natural disasters.

Trevor Rowe

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Italo Calvino

It is going to present some challenges. They are probably the only natural trade buyer for the business, so the market is saying, yes, it is good, but there are these issues.

George Clapham

It's a very risky business ascribing divine intent to natural disasters. Nobody but God really knows why these things occur.

Robert Knight

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

Cicero

He's a freak. He has a natural gift to start with, but he's also constantly training. Much of his life revolves around track.

Tom Cunningham

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Aretha Franklin

Brock just seems very natural doing it.

Colin Macaulay

She truly is a jumper. I am really impressed with her distance without the practice. I know she is just a natural athlete.

Cliff Robbins

We have resumed natural gas supply from the field on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. to the national grid.

Brian Adolph

As for why there's more of them, it's unknown. . . . We're right in the middle of the range. It could be part of a natural cycle or something man-made. We just don't know.

Peter Rowe

The price of gasoline, electricity, the price of natural gas, it's been a triple hit for the consumer.

Leroy Shafer

Zane had an exceptional year last year. He's just a natural hitter with a lot of natural ability.

Terry Pirtle

It seems like a denial of natural justice.

Lloyd Williams

Capitol Wealth Advisors is a natural evolution of our service-oriented business model.

Joseph Reid

Robin Hood always represents natural justice, and his association with nature helps that.

Stephen Knight

There are some fears now in the natural-gas market of a return to colder than average weather for the next few weeks.

Rakesh Shankar

Infrastructure and services that are inadequate and unreliable are adding to business and household costs, harming Karachi's urban and natural environments and decreasing the city's global competitiveness compared with alternative Asian mega cities.

Gulfer Cezayirli

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

Chelsea Clinton

You don't want to campaign in areas that have been hit by a natural disaster. There's no place in Florida that has been unaffected.

Scott Maddox

You can try something without having to buy a full bottle, and (young consumers) are used to drinking beer or flavored malt beverages out of the bottle, ... It's really a natural way for them to enter the category.

Peter Hall

It selects the virus to try and escape from the drugs by becoming resistant. That's a natural thing that any microbe does when you treat it.

Anthony S. Fauci

It was clearly a natural thing for him to do.

Les Moonves

As for Nevis, the Chelmsford was her third run in and it was Natural Blitz's first run back. I think Natural Blitz has more improvement in him than she does.

Doug Harrison

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

H. L. Mencken

Natural gas prices increased across the country, including Alberta.

Sebastien Lavoie

It creates a natural void between the linebackers and the line, and that sets the screen up.

Frank Cignetti Jr

I wish I could run an open with a baton in my hand. I've grown up with a baton in my hand. It's kind of natural for me.

Kyla Schmidt

Since Sears is involved in home installation, installing the broadband would probably be a natural adjunct in terms of offering services.

Jeffrey Edelman

It's a natural rivalry. And it's probably going to be that way for awhile. The fans were getting into it ... . I think it's good for high school basketball.

Scott Cross

The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.

Ruth Graham

Huge. He's the kind of guy you want on the field, because he's a natural.

Chuck Bresnahan

In the presence of the uncertainties in the measurements, we don't know how to assign weights to these two factors (natural and human). It might be all one, all the other or a mix of the two.

John Wallace

If the public decides they're not in favor of fertility control, we have only one option left - gathers, ... Natural controls aren't enough to impact the herd.

Linda Coates

Nikki is a natural-born leader. She is a tenacious defender who expects a great deal from herself.

Lesle Gallimore

You don't want to get rid of all your ants either. They're natural predators to termites.

Bret Clay

Spend every minute of the rest of his natural life in prison without seeing the light of day.

Keith Henderson

There are shortages expected by 2010 and perhaps 2011. We need to meet high natural gas demand because it is the cleanest burning fuel.

Gary Hale

Normally you don't get big dudes with natural tenacity. He's just a big, physical kid who loves contact. He was such a force.

Alonzo Carter

He had everything you would want in a quarterback. He had a great feel, great instincts, played the game in a natural manner. He made things happen. He made excellent decisions. He was a consistent player at a high level.

Marty Mornhinweg

The natural personality of the character is what we went for. This is not an acting role. This is a natural role. So if that was their personality, that's the person we went after.

Nola Rocco

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

There is no magic bullet, but natural gas gives us the time to transition to more efficient technology further down the track.

Greg Martin

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

John Bradshaw

When you're outside in this beautiful natural environment, it's dissonant to see some special effects film. There's a certain kind of film that feels right in that setting.

Barry Rivers

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

Leonard Orr

We're using natural methods to clean up soil pollutants.

Kathy Banks

He is a natural opener and I'm sure his good form and experience will be hugely important in our promotion chase.

Martyn Moxon

It's not natural to kill one's parents, so it's not commonplace.

Jon'a Meyer

There are many people who like to do the raw diets for their pets - the raw meat with bones, and lots of vegetables. It's more natural, like in the wild, although it's not for every pet.

Lynhaar Rodriguez

Our conservation challenge is managing growth and development to balance places for people with places for wildlife and natural diversity to flourish.

Lane Green

Natural gas isn't going to get any help from overseas.

Guy Gleichmann

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Paul Coffey

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

Walter Mosley

She's a natural leader, the girls listen to her. She is very strong and works out with her dad, and there's no one that will run her over.

Mark Cross

This is what kids do. This is what modern people do for sports. This is a natural progression.

Peter Foley

It's luck but it gives me the confidence that I can do it again. I don't think getting one hole-in-one makes it easier to get another one. It's just something that happens in the natural course of your golfing career.

Jim Dougherty

I'm looking at it as a permanent thing. I felt better at the linebacker position than I did at the end. It felt more natural to me. You come off the ball, make plays, run and hit.

Alonzo Horton

We just want the justice process to now follow its natural course.

Paul Horvath

The use of this technology addresses many of the concerns that have been raised about liquefied natural gas.

Jane Cutler

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Anger is a natural response when something you value is taken away from you. You may feel alone, isolated or not understood.

Anne Grant

He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

Mark Hurd

He's a natural. It's not hard to comprehend the receiver to defensive end transition if you see the kid work.

Reggie Herring

We've worked very hard to make sure city government is prepared for a natural disaster. What we need to happen, as well, is for the citizens to be well prepared.

Peter Ragone

(Sportsman of the year) is somebody who has made an impact in the community. And David's done that over the last couple of years. He's a natural for sportsman of the year.

Ray Palmer

We use the latest in natural cultural practices. Kevin Hicks (course superintendent) has done an excellent job.

Jerry Jaeger

Nothing like this has ever been tried before with a natural disaster. If 2,000 communities across the U.S. did this, none of the hurricane victims would be homeless.

Tom Martin

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Ben Hogan

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Richard Dawkins

With so few long free- flowing rivers left, we are on the brink of losing another natural phenomenon without fully understanding the costs of these losses before it?s too late.

Ute Collier

It's often said there is not one world market for natural gas, but three regional markets, Europe, North America and Asia.

Francis Perrin

We are mindful that the tight natural gas supplies could create temptations for improper behavior by some market participants.

Joseph Kelliher

Natural selection is not evolution.

Ronald Fisher

We are confident natural gas supplies will be adequate to meet firm demand this winter.

Paul Wilkinson

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

Sam Rivers

It was a natural decision to reach out to BAX. They delivered a world-class solution that was executed flawlessly.

Bill Best

This is a true positive from a very unfortunate natural disaster.

James Malone

We don't know exactly what's going to happen, but we know something is going to happen, ... These are natural disasters, but they shouldn't be unanticipated.

Jeb Hensarling

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

Marianne Faithfull

Really, that's a cover for creationism, ... Science is limited in studying the natural world and gives its explanations in natural terms.

Michael Clough

I'm scared to death about a grass fire. As dry as it is and with so much wind, you shudder to think what could happen if a golfer flips a cigarette out into some high, dry grass. We have a lot of natural areas here, and those could really be in jeopardy.

Alan Wooley

It's going to be a very hard winter for consumers, especially in Northern California, where most people heat with natural gas.

Mindy Spatt

With a Vedic architecture house, it feels so ... it fits like a glove. It's like it's human, like a living entity, natural, not foreign.

Peter Trivelas

This could be the greatest natural disaster in our country's history. We need a response commensurate with that.

John Street

The land is going to stay in its natural state in perpetuity.

Bill Sheehan

Where is it going to be in three years? I'm scared. The price of natural gas has no limits.

Bob Romancheck

He said, 'Mark, he makes me feel like he's a college professor and I'm a kindergarten student,' ... He said, 'He is the most intuitive horseman I've ever been around,' and that was high praise, because his father didn't give any praise. He's one of the best natural horsemen I ever met.

Mark Reid

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Paul Hawken

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Mary Austin

It seems we have the biggest problem where we've modified the natural course of things.

Randy Westmoreland

Every 60 to 90 days a person's natural lash falls out. The extended lashes are very sturdy and do not fall off on their own, touch-ups are needed as long as the natural lash holds.

Nancy Griffith

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

James Rouse

Now it's just a matter of her adjusting back to her natural position as a left-footed back.

Scott Atherley

It has everything you could want - degree of difficulty, length, some of the best greens I've ever seen. They moved a lot of dirt, but it doesn't look forced it looks natural. I think the way they distributed it is magnificent.

Johnny Williams

It became a natural part of life.

Beezer Molten

RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.

Ambrose Bierce

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

Bart Stupak

This follows a natural progression of the company's strategy and the evolution of developing economies.

George Bicher

Demand for natural gas is continuing to increase, and we're having to look to unconventional sources.

Bill Prior

Every day I'm playing new games. Games are becoming more and more natural for film. Game makers are exploring this new and different interactive medium and they're bringing young, fresh and dynamic ideas to the table.

Christophe Gans

Once again, (we are) trying to look at how we preserve some of the natural features on these sloped areas.

Tim Conklin

I feel a lot more comfortable with each game. Things seem to get easier and more natural for me.

Joe Ayoob

If there's significant damage done in the Gulf, there's going to be a supply impact on gasoline, diesel and natural gas.

Bob Slaughter

You have the government pushing up demand and the government restricting supply. Everybody we compete with across the world has cheaper natural gas than us.

Randy Bowen

California has a very commendable record of dealing with large natural disasters.

Richard Andrews

That was a natural thing to do. We wanted to be able to watch the game and didn't want to keep anyone from watching the game either.

Mike Holloway

This is a natural evolution of what we have long talked about at Vanguard -- that costs, broadly defined, are important in assessing funds' returns.

Joel Dickson

They have a natural chemistry.

Jonathan Jackson

Market prices are continuing to soften for natural gas (nationwide). You see that show up in electricity prices, too, because so much electricity is generated by natural gas-fired plants.

Claudia Rapkoch

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

Thomas E. Lovejoy

In a natural, fun way, kids are playing with words. It's making their little heads work when they are involved with rhyme.

Laurie Lapan

Growing around [great musicians], you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.

Whitney Houston

This is the latest phase in the city's campaign to encourage natural lawn and garden care practices.

David Mckeown

Natural snowfall is a natural stimulator.

Vicki Baumann

I remember when you could drive Galveston Island, from end to end, on the natural beach. I don't think there will ever be any hope of doing that again.

Lorraine Brown

His career just took off. He's a natural. He was born in the saddle. In the future, I think he is going to be one of the best riders in the country.

Kirk Ziadie

The energy markets are going up with the cold weather headed for the east coast. Natural gas spiked up above $15 and oil got a kicker from that.

Mike Sander

We had the resources at the library and it seemed like a natural thing to organize a group here.

Tom Barratt

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

Dan Quisenberry

If we're both doing our job very well, it's natural to have overlap in our stories.

Craig David

This is a tragic accident that has saddened all of us. These canines receive extensive explosives training but this accident was due to the dog's natural instincts.

Donnie Carter

I'd rather die fighting for justice than die of natural causes.

Donna J. Zuk

She's a natural born leader for us. I thought that bucket helped us to get (the momentum) back our way.

Gary Murphy

Actors make bold choices. Choose what isn't natural to you.

Theresa Carson

What the FDA initiated was in some ways a natural experiment. This is the kind of rigorous scientific information the FDA should consider in evaluating its decisions.

Darrel Regier

He's got natural athletic ability.

Sid Monge

We couldn't be more excited. His comedic and dramatic strengths make him a natural for this series.

David E. Kelley

You're just a collection of particles that have come together by chance and by natural selection.

John Calvert

We're based on our friends' couches and in our old rooms at our parents' houses. What we have in common is that our parents loved to travel, so touring comes natural to us. We're a band of gypsies.

Charlotte Cooper

The North Georgia Mountains Authority is empowered by law to conduct business in any county in Georgia that the (Department of Natural Resources) board adopts to do so by resolution.

Bob Newsome

A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Nancy Johnson

It is natural that some of the topless dancers that were arrested will make ridiculous claims to deflect attention from their illegal activities.

Bill Lutz

I just think it's a natural phenomenon taking Jerry's career to its natural end. He did it gracefully and honestly and ended on his own terms. I just think he handled his career beautifully.

Bill Walsh

It will affect the entire natural gas picture in the entire West. Any new (gas) supply is good news. So, therefore, we're encouraged.

Roberto Denis

Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

David Travis

We have met our objectives and it is a natural moment for HP to conclude our relationship.

Cathy Lyons

It makes sense to mimic as much as you can the natural nest.

John Gallegos

We get most of our funding from the Department of Natural Resources. And when any natural resources agency experiences tight budgets, the first thing to go is an educational program.

Christine Thomas

All constituencies to preserve and protect the state's natural resources.

David Feldman