Quotes About Unnatural

Rincewind wasn't used to people being pleased to see him. It was unnatural, and boded no good. These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made out of stone, but the thought was there.

He's right, we'll get no answers from these mutilated forms, and even if I'm successful at restoring one, we'll get answers only by lip-reading, given the unnatural silence blanketing the land and all inhabitants

Implementing these may require new thinking, new skills, and even new relationships. Probably none of this will feel natural at first. That's okay. Being Purposeful is often about doing what comes "unnaturally;" but when you're committed to achieving extraordinary results, you simply do whatever it takes anyway.

Virtue is acting naturally, doing the right thing without thinking "I'm doing the right thing!" Righteousness is acting unnaturally, following rigid rules or commandments that all too often make us a worse, rather than a better, person.

An announcement from a distant, guilty pulpit somewhere in his head told him this was God's punishment for unnatural acts. Another, quieter voice asked 'What's unnatural about loving someone?

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

tale ossessione era come una serra: un posto a temperatura costante, senz'aria, stipato di varietà multicolori, di fiori innaturali.

Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?

It is agayns the proces of nature.

I'm being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.

The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the metric system as it was completely unnatural to them and stuck to Ottoman standards instead.

Should I push him or should I throw him? Howie asks. Do what comes naturally, I yelled back. I don't know, he says. This is a very unnatural thing.

To call me unnatural is a high compliment. For am I not superior to nature?

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

Plants and animals are even more comfortable with death. It is the natural end. But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

It was poisonous, unnatural to let the dead go with a mere whimpering, a slight murmur, a rose bouquet of good taste. Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste. And there must be much rage and saliva in its presence. The body must move and throw itself about, the eyes must roll, the hands should have no peace, and the throat should release all the yearning, despair and outrage that accompany the stupidity of loss.

The implicit consensus of the postwar decades was now broken, and a new, decidedly unnatural consensus was beginning to emerge around the primacy of private interest.

artificial order on civilization is with brute force. The only way to make something unnatural appear to be natural is to force everyone to think alike. If

I'm sure it's an epidemic,' she exclaimed at last, peering down nervously into the street. 'Nonsense, Mother; don't fuss,' said Larry airily. 'But, dear, so many of them … it's unnatural.' 'There's nothing unnatural about dying. People do it all the time.

Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural.