#natura

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#faction #found #made #natural #persecution

A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to feel natural. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#directing #feel #forced #natural #orchestra

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#environment #foreign #guys #home #home life

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#engineering #magic #man #supernatural #word

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#another #another way #band #career #i

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. ↗

— George Herman

#just #like #most #natural #natural thing

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #because #came #colour #curtains

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#most #sexual #unnatural

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

— Thomas Huxley

#advance #authority #every #great #involved

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#acknowledge #authority #blind #blind faith #duties