#natura

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#comedian #deny #denying #hilarious #i

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#discovery #general #hesitation #i #i can

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#i #look #natural #natural state #opportunities

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#dogmatism #found #natural #remedy #research

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#human #life #natural #death

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#american people #attack #communicate #disaster #effectively

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#because #definitely #drawn #get #happens

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting. ↗

— John Foster

#elements #interesting #just #make #more

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers