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religious style looks
Rob Sheffield Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
religious thinking opposites
Richard Dawkins If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.
religious giving-up children
Richard Dawkins I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.
religious atheist atheism
Richard Dawkins Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.
religious strong political
Richard Whately A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
religious hero character
Russell Crowe I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.
religious integrity patriotic
Roger Babson Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.
religious errors grace
Tryon Edwards The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
reading sea library
Richard Dawkins We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.
reading men fleas
Samuel Rogers A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.
reading wife secret
Rhys Ifans But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].
reading thinking scripts
Rebecca Eaton I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.
reading literature beats
Richard Ford I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
reading feelings literature
Richard Ford I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
reading writing
Richard Ford To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
reading army names
Robert Duvall Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
reading book wonderful
Roald Dahl Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
reality shadow substance
Richard Whately Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
reality doors stage
Russell Hoban If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.
reality years solitude
Russell Banks It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
reality people action
William S. Burroughs The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.
reality way faces
William S. Burroughs The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
reality men world
Virginia Woolf If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...
reality giving actors
Viola Spolin General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.
reality people different
Wong Kar-wai People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality.
reality thinking dentist
Woody Allen You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.