“Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.” FirstsSelfNaturalWillingCompelledPolitenessRecollectionAbnegation Author:Lord Chesterfield
“If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.” PeopleIfsMenWantTryingFirstsDoeSaidCountryDoneRunningBlackNaturalWhiteKingsCompromiseWhite ManLuther Author:Malcolm X
“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.” IfsThinkingNeedsFeelsFirstsMayRealDeathEvilNaturalLossActingOughtSorrowIllusionGainsOvercomingErrorsSeparationEvidentWeepingHappier Life Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater
“If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.” IfsThinkingMenFirstsStillsAsksNaturalReligiousJusticeMoralHonestMoralityTemperNatural Justice Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. [Natura non facit saltus] All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.” WorldFirstsCountryShowsCareLastsSidesNaturalRelationshipMethodMapsFragmentsFirsts And Lasts Author:Carl Linnaeus
“Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don't think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsFirstsLooksMadeRealityScienceNaturalClearHonestConversationIntellectualDecidedClimateBeing HonestArroganceArrogantPercentagesConvolutedIntellectual Arrogance Author:Barack Obama
“In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.” PeopleYearsFirstsTwoWantedCertainSoundBlackNaturalDarkCareersCuttingColorHairClothesRedLipsCommunicateLabelsTwo YearsRestraintLipstickHair Dye Author:Rihanna
“The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.” IfsWayGivingFirstsKindMightSoundNaturalGentleSuggestionsPoliteLike SomethingWoody Author:Owen Wilson
“When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking.” WorldWantTryingFirstsKindCharacterHandsFilmDesireThreeProcessNaturalSpaceAudiencePerspectiveWalkingIllusionStorytellingFilmmakingExtensionsAlways TryingBelievable Author:Rob Minkoff
“We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into you every which way that you've got to get married and you've got to have babies. That you're not a natural woman if you don't. So that led to a lot of sitting by the telephone and waiting for a call. And that led you into a culture in which you were always in a subordinate position without realizing it; hamstrung, not able to take action. That was the most important thing: you were always waiting to be desired.” IfsWayFirstsImportantAbleActionCultureWaitingRealizingNaturalPositionBabyGrewMarriedGrew UpSittingImportant ThingsVulnerableRomantic LoveTelephonesSubordinatesAlways Waiting Author:Vivian Gornick
“That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsKindLittlesHomeYoungNaturalWonderfulMovementAdventureSpeciesExcitementWonderful ThingsHuntsProfitableNestsNatural History Author:E. O. Wilson
“There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.” IfsMenWantFirstsHumansKindSpiritualThreeChristNaturalPleasureHuman NaturePleaseNormalThirdsHarmAsceticism Author:Tito Colliander