Naturalis Quotes

#1. A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. In 1687, when Sir Isaac Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, probably the most important single work ever published in the physical sciences.

Stephen Hawking

#3. Optimumque est, ut volgo dixere, aliena insania frui. And the best plan is, as the popular saying was, to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis

Robert Galbraith

#4. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't currently rocking someone else's world.

Kathryn Budig

#5. All life was lived within the close proximity of tragedy.

Fran Seen

#6. I don't like Miami that much. I don't like the weather. My base is Miami, but I travel a lot.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#7. When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Octavio Paz

#8. I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

Sergio Garcia

#9. Following your intuition will always lead you to the best experience for your growth right now.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#10. You can be okay again. Just a different kind of okay than before.

Emery Lord

#11. Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

George Montgomery

#12. I play music. People are affected by the music I play. That doesn't mean I direct traffic! That doesn't mean I put a knife in anybody's hand and tell 'em to go kill somebody!

Charles Manson

#13. Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

Jim Cleamons

#14. ... it struck me that maybe the young girl had just been a prostitute. I felt a momentary sigh of gratitude, and then the awareness stopped me cold, the walls pulsed in on me. How cheap was I?

Colum McCann

#15. There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

Paul Theroux

#16. I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Sakyong Mipham