“As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.” IfsLittlesHas BeensMightKidsNaturalWhiteHellHappenedMomDadInvolvedRedPressureMy DadAthleteMy MomLittle KidMight Have BeenMom And DadCaliberBeing A DadStepmothersSprinters Author:Brian J. White
“Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.” IfsShouldHumansMayTodayActionNaturalHuman BeingsIssuesHappenedLateClimateClimate ChangeAddressesToo LateBehaviourHuman BehaviourDecisive Action Author:Ban Ki-moon
“When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.” KindSometimesReasonHappensWantedBeautifulFilmNaturalHappenedMovementEnglandMovedParis Author:Charlotte Rampling
“The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.” IfsWritingCareFeltSportsNaturalForgetHappenedSeaMinutesTypeComputerLowsSightSentencesSavedSolitarySmall ThingsOne WordBoilingFlotsam Book:Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir Source: Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir
“One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice." Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.” MenLongWisdomGovernmentPoliticsNaturalJusticeLibertyEconomyDemocracyRightsHappenedGroupsModernCivilizationIdealsDisasterOrganizedDecentLiberalismBannerNatural RightsModern Civilization Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.” ThinkingWorldSeemsGrowsNaturalChurchGrowing UpTakenHappenedDegreesCatholicHopefulPriestsOptimistBellyNeuroticVatican Ii Author:Richard Rohr
“It's a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I'm happy she's out of pain, 'cause I love her and she's my friend.” ChildrenPainYoungLostCausesParentLosesNaturalHappenedMomMy FriendsMy MomNatural Things Author:Angelina Jolie
“The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.” ChildrenKidsActorsNaturalInterestingActingWonderfulHappenedThings HappenYardsVividInteresting ThingsChild Actors Author:Clint Eastwood
“I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.” KindNaturalHappenedMarriedThings To DoRight ThingCelebrationGetting Married Author:Scarlett Johansson
“When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what has actually occurred. When they run the models and plug in the man-made pollution, the correspondence is exact. Beyond that, the scale of natural fluctuations has now been far exceeded by the impact of man-made global warming.” MenLooksMadeRunningLastsNaturalHappenedModelsOppositesImpactDecadesScalesGlobal WarmingPollutionPlugsCorrespondenceFluctuation Author:Al Gore
“If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.” IfsWantChildrenHelpingDiesNaturalDealsGriefHappenedTerribleOur ChildrenRageDisasterWitnessYour ChildrenExplanationFind MeNatural DisasterTurbulenceDismay Author:Karen Armstrong
“Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One can imagine what would have happened if members of each nation moving to the U.S. had spoken only their own tongues and refused to learn English.” IfsStatesTogetherMovingChoicesLanguageNationsNaturalUnitedCommonUnited StatesImagineHappenedGroupsMembersTongueRepresentativesEthnic GroupsCommon Language Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look for a scapegoat. Depending on where you live in this country, the scapegoats are either, frankly, Mexicans or Muslims. So, you know, God save you if you happened to be a Mexican Muslim in America right now.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLooksCountryDoneAmericaNaturalHappenedEconomicRight NowDistressMexicanKnowing GodScapegoatWhere You Live Author:Reza Aslan
“Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment... It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.” MenShouldFirstsWellsIdeasMomentsSeemsNaturalSpaceStepsEnvironmentHappenedAwarenessProtectConcernedShould HavePhotographFirst StepsNew IdeasCoincidenceNatural Environment Author:Fred Hoyle
“It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him "my God, you are like a young Michael Bublé. It happened to Harry Connick Jr with the Sinatra thing and now people are saying to me that I am the new Harry Connick Jr. It is a natural thing. I remember hearing interviews with Harry Connick saying "I am not Sinatra, leave me alone, I am different". It's a small thing to deal with.” PeopleYearsHumansDifferentKidsRememberYoungNaturalDealsHappenedHuman NatureOne DayCome UpHearingInterviewsLeaving MeSmall ThingsMe AloneNatural ThingsLeave Me Alone Author:Michael Buble
“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.” ThinkingMindStillsPlayMomentsTogetherMotherDiesThreeWaterNaturalSawsHappenedChangedBabyDrinkProtectionDecadesThat MomentReservesElephantsFootprintKenyaSo SadDrink WaterPoaching Author:Li Bingbing
“They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.” KnowsWayLooksShowsBodyNaturalAnswersRecordsHappenedDesignEvolutionMachinesScientistMiracleYour BodyPretendingSelectionFossilsNatural Selection Author:Kurt Vonnegut