#natural

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#attack #does #even #expect #israeli

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#although #been #determined #either #folly

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#natural #need #plants #pruning #study

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#education #glory #man #more #natural

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#die #infant #little #natural #other

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood. ↗

— Russell Baker

#after #been #boasting #county #dark

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. ↗

— John Berger

#before #century #imposed #natural #other

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. ↗

— John Berger

#being #best #compassion #natural #natural order

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

Disharmony is natural in any band. ↗

— Joan Jett

#band #natural