His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Brian Tracy

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
Ernest Holmes

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Karl Marx

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve Martin

Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy.
Steve Martin

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul II

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William Osler

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise Pascal

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
James Madison