There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections.
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine – what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.
I think I just laugh nonstop. I think my laughter naturally melts in when I want to recharge.
I think any branding for me is band-related. It’s really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I’m not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I’m at home and not on tour.
Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
Since childhood, my mother made sure I oiled my hair and conditioned them properly every week. I still follow that regimen. Plus, I have naturally good quality hair.
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
The marginal cost of doing something ‘just this once’ always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
I’m a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.
I’m much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
If you’re a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, ‘Oh, I could have done so much better,’ that’s not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.
If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we’re reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don’t put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.
I do find that there’s a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.
There are a lot of elements when you’re writing, or when I’m writing, that are sitting in the back of your mind. I try to let them stay there, because they find their way in more naturally that way.
Employees have been worrying about the rising tide of automation for 200 years now, and for 200 years employers have been assuring them that new jobs will naturally materialize to take their place.
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it’s not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it’s an unhealthy connection.
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
Kids are naturally curious about what they don’t know, or don’t understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.
It’s too hard to present an opinion on something that’s not true to who you are. It’s much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it’s also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn’t necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
I have always enjoyed keeping wickets, as it is something that comes very naturally to me.
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.
I don’t want a girl who’s high-maintenance and wants to go shopping… I like a girl who doesn’t wear make-up and is naturally beautiful.
There’s a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
Men were only made into ‘men’ with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ‘a man’ any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.
I naturally have a really small waist.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – it’s some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I’m naturally quite shy. I’m a quite private person. There’s this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who’s slightly shy or self-conscious, it’s the most frightening thing you can do.
Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It’s a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance that out.
While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: ‘What is real? What is truth?’ They have to learn it; they don’t automatically know it. To them, it’s a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.
Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you’re not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.
Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization’s table weren’t plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species.
‘Game of Thrones’ was the first fantasy thing I’ve done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it, I didn’t expect to respond to that world, but when I started doing it, I really started to love it, started to realize that some of the things I’m naturally drawn to.
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, ‘Hey, I’d like to draw manga – I’d like to be a manga author!’
I love comedy because I’m naturally a very silly person.
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.
I come from a family where people are physically affectionate. Hugging and kissing comes naturally to me.
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
I’m a pretty big guy so heavyweight for me it comes very naturally.
I was naturally muscular from Day 1.
One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn’t happen, it’s a shock. But I just feel that it wasn’t meant to be.
