#natural

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#aspiring #athletes #because #better #day

He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?' I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed. 'You shaved my legs?!' Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be. ↗

— Karen Chance

#fiction #humor #romance #supernatural #vampire

The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men. ↗

— Karen Chance

#fiction #humor #romance #supernatural #vampire

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#paranormal-romance #supernatural #humor

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society". "If society were really decent, he would have been ↗

— George R. Gissing

#victorian-era #women-s-issues #imagination

The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real. ↗

— Lisa Grace

#fiction #inspiration #paranormal-romance #supernatural #inspirational

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you. ↗

— Michael J. Cohen

#community #intelligent #natural #wild #within

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#natural-hygiene #surgery #life

To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all. ↗

— Heather Marie Adkins

#supernatural-powers #the-temple #life

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life! ↗

— Charles Darwin

#natural-selection #species #life