#natura

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. ↗

— Adam Smith

#administration #barbarism #being #brought #carry

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek. ↗

— Red Smith

#habitat #left #natural #tongue

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears. ↗

— John Foster

#desires #elements #fears #his #inner

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#because #birthday #copy #doing #done

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid. ↗

— John W. Snow

#adequate #advantage #been #burn #clean

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#actually #am #auditors #because #been

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ↗

— Robert South

#incomprehensible #mind #paradoxical #substances #things

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#crime #despicable #did #does #excuse

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cannot #civil #common #conceived #consent

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#acting #ask #be prepared #being #calm