Denaturalize Quotes & Sayings

I love wearing designer pieces with something I found at Target. — Lauren Conrad

There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own ... — George W. Bush

Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat? — Cassandra Clare

disgraceful, indelible blot on the conscience of England and it would remain there forever. No true Irishman would ever forgive them for that, but the Titanic story — Michael Grant

There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the age of reason sets in. — Alice Steinbach

Nothing has been accomplished. By casting away their responsibility they may feel comfortable with themselves, but they have ceased to solve the problems of living, have ceased to grow spiritually, and have become dead weight for society.

M. Scott Peck. The Road Less Traveled (Kindle Locations 499-501). — M. Scott Peck

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it. — Eckhart Tolle

People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read. — Mark Twain

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing. — Ron Perlman

It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group. — Will Estes

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. — H.L. Mencken

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind. — Joel Osteen

You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why. — Albert Kanene Obiefuna

The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours. — Keith Richards

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have. — Gail Zappa

The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration. — Mary Robinette Kowal

The dogged effort to "denaturalize" gender in this text emerges, I think, from a strong desire both to counter the normative violence implied by ideal morphologies of sex and to uproot the pervasive assumptions about natural or presumptive heterosexuality that are informed by ordinary and academic discourses on sexuality. The writing of this denaturalization was not done simply out of a desire to play with language or prescribe theatrical antics in the place of "real" politics, as some critics have conjectured (as if theatre and politics are always distinct). It was done from a desire to live, to make life possible, and to rethink the possible as such. — Judith Butler