Quotes About The Natural Order Of Things

#1. With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#2. When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be.

Hugh Laurie

#3. When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?

Rene Daumal

#4. Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things.

Atul Gawande

#5. Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household.

Gustave Flaubert

#6. Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

Murray Rothbard

#8. Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Kenneth R. Miller

#9. They had grown up to believe that the natural order of things was for one's home to be a place of freedom and space far removed from the complexities and restrictions of human societies. We

Kobie Kruger

#10. The universe has a place and purpose for everything and everyone. sometimes we cannot know what that place is. or what the purpose of everything that happens to us will be. that is why we must allow the natural order of things to occur.

Jessica Brody

#11. I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

Patrick Marber

#12. After all, death and life are just two phases of the natural order of things. It seems silly to embrace birth and fear death.

Fiona Paul

#13. That so many of them were African American, many of them my grandmother's age, struck me as simply a part of the natural order of things: growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine. My

Margot Lee Shetterly

#14. My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.

Deborah Kass

#15. Everybody steals from everybody, Addie. That's the natural order of things. I

Amanda Lance

#16. Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.

Cathy Hughes

#17. It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

Robert Anthony

#18. Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ...

Angelina Grimke

#19. I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#20. That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

Hugh Jackman

#21. Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all goes according to the natural order of things, siblings will know us longer than our parents, longer than our spouses and friends. Lord Westdale to Duncan

Kieran Kramer

#22. Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.

Lord Chesterfield

#23. For most of my life, the world shrank and technology progressed; this was the natural order of things. Few of us clocked on that "the natural order of things" is entirely man-made, and that a world that kept expanding as technology regressed was not only possible but waiting in the wings.

David Mitchell

#24. Why fight the natural order of things?"
"I guess becomes some things are worth it.

Paula Stokes

#25. A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

Benjamin Hoff

#26. In most relationships, one partner has more control than the other. It was just the natural order of things. Perfect balance was a hard thing to find.

Harlan Coben

#27. Why do certain people try to go against the natural order of things, which is to fight for survival whatever happens?

Paulo Coelho

#28. To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

Zhuge Liang

#29. Simple acceptance Like waves belong on water We are as we are There is no need to be more than what is. In fact, that is impossible by definition. We can feel good about being part of the natural order of things and simply accept that we are worthy as we are.

Karl Grass

#30. The image gets built one way or another ... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

Jean Helion

#31. I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

Theodore Roethke

#32. There are no whys or hows when it comes to the natural order of things. It just is.

Julie Kagawa

#33. Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

Lise Meitner

#34. I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

Nicholas Sparks

#35. It went against the natural order of things. Parents give; they do not receive. "Mom,

Kathleen Irene Paterka

#36. It was as if the universe pointed us in the direction of each other, because that was the natural order of things.

Chrissy Moon

#37. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you can only tinker with the natural order of things for so long before nature gets the last laugh.

Chris Dietzel

#38. Windows of opportunity open and then close. By staying in the present, handling what's in front of us, and riding the wave of opportunity when it comes, we follow the natural order of things.

Dan Millman

#39. All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

Gunnar Myrdal

#40. People tend to invert the most natural order of life, which is to move before things happen, instead of expecting things to happen to move.

Robin Sacredfire

#41. Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

Dayananda Saraswati

#42. I look for three things. Number One is does the film promote the beauty and dignity of the human person? Number Two is does this film promote the transcendent moral order? And three, does it promote natural affection?

Jason Jones

#43. Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere,

Anton Chekhov

#44. Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.

Martha Beck

#45. This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.

Cennino Cennini

#46. Because if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. There's no real natural law, no right and wrong that's immutable, and the world is suddenly a savage place where any number of things can go wrong.

Anne Rice

#47. The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

Bill O'Reilly