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Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. -- William Shakespeare
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. -- William Shakespeare
Battle was a masculine art. A woman wanting to come to the battlefield was like... well, like a man wanting to read. Unnatural. -- Brandon Sanderson
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice. -- Alain de Botton
Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control. -- P. D. James
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions. -- Thomas Hood
I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage. -- R. S. Thomas
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. -- T. S. Eliot
I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole? -- Lauren Oliver
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul languageeverything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious. -- Wilfred Owen
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious. -- Wilfred Owen
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. -- Charlie Chaplin
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. -- Aldous Huxley
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. -- Alfred Kinsey
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. -- Ryan Adams
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. -- Joshua Reynolds
Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints. -- Patrick Chan
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. -- Nigella Lawson
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. -- H. G. Wells
This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous. -- Beth Ditto
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. -- Bob Dylan
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. -- Walt Disney
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I've always felt that when you use too many products or try too many new things, you're just piling a lot of unnatural, unnecessary stress on your face. I try to keep it simple. -- Amber Rose
The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there. -- Chevy Chase
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. -- Neve Campbell
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. -- W. Somerset Maugham
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do. -- Alex Turner
The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field. -- Alice Dreger
I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you. -- Dhani Harrison
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures. -- Tracy Letts
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness? -- Deborah Sampson
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing. -- Sloane Crosley
I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting. -- Hannibal Buress
I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business. -- Kristen Stewart
Nature is actually unnatural -- Haruki Murakami
Exercise is an unnatural act. -- Peter De Vries
Statism is an unnatural disaster. -- Stefan Molyneux
Nothing is unnatural - just untried. -- Rita Mae Brown
The unnatural, that too is natural. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I want to perform an unnatural act. -- Lenny Bruce
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. -- Marty Feldman
A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. -- Jane Austen
No religion is better than an unnatural one. -- William Penn
Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural. -- Anthony Bourdain
Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature. -- Carolyn Wells
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally. -- Anthony Marra
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. -- Tom Clancy
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. -- Charlie Chaplin
The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all. -- Sigmund Freud
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em. -- William Wycherley
Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God. -- Gordon Baxter
Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural. -- Malcolm X
..love cushions all your irritations, unnatural instincts, hatreds and immaturities." -- Ray Bradbury
Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural. -- Ted Dekker
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it. -- Benjamin Whichcote
The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own -- Fernando Pessoa
Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all. -- Sharyn McCrumb
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way. -- Mason Cooley
My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me. -- Ginger Rogers
In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. -- Robert South
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. -- R. D. Laing
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent -- Bertrand Russell
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. -- Benjamin Franklin
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. -- Gore Vidal
The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art. -- Steve Martin
Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends. -- Kristin Cashore
I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself -- James Joyce
It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. -- Bill Johnson
There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural. -- Stéphane Audeguy
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. -- Louis Kahn
Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural. -- Richelle Mead
Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now? -- Amber Rose
Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. -- William Shakespeare
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. -- Antoine Rivarol
As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural. -- Gelsey Kirkland
For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. -- Jessica Lange
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious. -- Barbara Kingsolver
So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. -- John Stuart Mill
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Marijuana grows naturally...Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural? -- Bill Hicks
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. -- Aldous Huxley
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. -- Aleister Crowley
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things -- G.K. Chesterton
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. -- Amelia Barr
Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural. -- Linda Ronstadt
The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees. -- Brad Faxon
Planning stuff out sucks. If you plan stuff out, you wind up talking in a very monotonous, unnatural way. -- CM Punk
Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation. -- Herbert Marcuse
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. -- Edmund Burke
love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me. -- Darcey Bussell
Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?" -- Meg Cabot
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that? -- Meg Cabot
Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result. -- Jean Hugard
I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat. -- Florence King
I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural. -- Alicia Silverstone
The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world. -- Joe Iacovino
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear. -- Carl Hubbell
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man." -- Tom Robbins
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living? -- Norman Cousins
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural. -- Philip Jose Farmer
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers. -- Michael Palmer
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph -- Robert E. Howard
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost. -- Rajneesh
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view. -- Cesar Millan
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race. -- Luther Burbank
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. -- Robinson Jeffers
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease. -- Malgorzata Szumowska
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. -- William Shakespeare

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