Quotes About Unnaturally

#1. The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family.

Bryant McGill

#2. I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.

Annette Bening

#3. The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

John Tillotson

#4. Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

Sara Shandler

#5. Hardy classified A Pair of Blue Eyes among 'Romances and Fantasies'. A favourite of Tennyson, its melancholy treatment of youth, love and death is expressive of late nineteenth-century susceptibilities. Not unnaturally in an early novel, Hardy draws freely on his own life.

Geoffrey Harvey

#6. Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

Plutarch

#7. It's the first time I've ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.

Suzanne Collins

#8. Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.

Molly Harper

#9. Unnaturally high radiation levels increases aggression in people

Steven Magee

#10. War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

Anthony Marra

#11. They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave unnaturally. In nature animals flee cold and seek warmth and comfort. But Bobo naturalists flee comfort and seek cold and deprivation.

David Brooks

#12. The swans are unnaturally beautiful. They mate for life.
I wish they could talk. I have questions.

Suzanne Finnamore

#13. For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

Spencer Bachus

#14. One look at Madame Barton, and any woman would think twice, then a third time, before committing to plastic surgery. Her eyes were unnaturally wide and round; too much skin had been removed for them to close properly;

Suzanne Munshower

#15. To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Naomi Wolf

#16. On Harpy's Drive we passed a row of trees, each one with its trunk unnaturally bloated and covered with black fuzz. I had no idea what the fuzz did, but we steered clear of it. The law of navigating post-Shift Atlanta was simple: if you don't know what it is, don't touch it.

Ilona Andrews

#17. We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.

Bryant McGill

#18. And when we went home he was unnaturally quiet and looked at me as if he wanted to convey all he was feeling without words.

Patti Smith

#19. ...and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able to fulfill her engagement, though it was made with the hero himself.

Jane Austen

#20. IT wanted little more than a fortnight to Christmas; but the weather showed no signs yet of the frost and snow, conventionally associated with the coming season. The atmosphere was unnaturally warm, and the old year was dying feebly in sapping rain and enervating mist.

Wilkie Collins

#21. I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

Joel Salatin

#22. The neglect of a generation is regeneration so every soul may become its own history, not the incessant anxiety of unnaturally imposed lessons, a plague of its own making.

Dew Platt

#23. I am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

Kathy Acker

#24. the room grew unnaturally quiet. Kote stood with his back to the room, a stillness in his body and a terrible silence clenched between his teeth.

Patrick Rothfuss

#25. Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

David J. Lieberman

#26. The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#27. Did you know your dancing is atrocious? I seriously think there is something wrong with your inner ear. No other human moves so unnaturally to music.

Ashlan Thomas

#28. Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine.

Steven Magee

#29. But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs. No

Dave Eggers

#30. I've never been in a group environment in which I didn't feel obliged to present an unnaturally rah-rah version of myself.

Susan Cain

#31. In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

Ava DuVernay

#32. I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

Chris Hardwick

#33. It's a monster."
Her nose scrunches in disgust. "You mean it's deformed?"
"No. I mean it's huge."
"How huge?"
"Unnaturally huge."
"Like a porno dick?"
"Exactly.

Helena Hunting

#34. Some people - and I am one of them - hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

Vladimir Nabokov

#35. Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends flop like spaniel ears. I'm suspicious of unnaturally perky ribbon.

Rhoda Janzen

#36. I'm different,and I like being different."Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud.
"Maybe I don't like being different,"Meg said."but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.

Madeleine L'Engle

#37. Once handed the money, Paulson abandoned his promised strategy and instead essentially began giving away billions of dollars to Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and a few others unnaturally selected for survival.

Michael Lewis

#38. A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#39. Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Dan Harmon